our miss fred (1972)

"We must stop meeting like this"
Fred Wimbush (Danny La Rue) is a drag act playing to the troops during WWII and is captured by the Germans in France. He then has the good fortune to be released as they think he's a girl, and remains in character whilst trying to escape back to Britain.
Vaguely comic slapstick overplayed for all its worth!

don't just lie there say something (1974)

"MP's why don't they stay at home and watch telly like the rest of us."
MP Sir William Mainwaring-Brown (Leslie Phillips) is sponsoring an anti-smut campaign in Parliament, and to an effort to scupper it, some hippies try to kidnap him. Unfortunately they only succeed in grabbing Barry Ovis (Brian Rix), an accident prone MP, on the day he is meant to marry Sir William's daughter.
A bed-hopping farce that unfortunately was what passed for comedy in 70s Britain.

up the chastity belt (1971)

aka The Chastity Belt. Ned Sherrin's Production of Up the Chastity Belt.
"and they named me Lurkalot, as I do!"
The Queen of England gives birth to twins, one of whom, Lurkalot (Frankie Howerd), is left to die in the forest, the other becoming Richard the Lionheart. But Lurkalot does not die, and not knowing his ancestry becomes a servant for Sir Coward (Graham Crowden), selling chastity belts on the side. That is until Sir Braggart de Bombast (Bill Fraser) takes a fancy to Coward's daughter, Lobelia (Anne Aston), and Lurkalot undertakes to protect her, the castle and most of all himself from Sir Braggart.
Following the success of Up Pompei, they decide to prove the law of diminishing returns, by foisting this pile on the unsuspecting public.

up pompeii (1971)

"She was the original good time had by all."
The everyday life of Roman era Pompeii, as seen through the eyes of Lurcio (Frankie Howerd). Trouble comes when Lurcio, charged with arranging his masters latest orgy in honour of Emperor Nero, inadvertently gets hold of a scroll plotting the Emperor's assassination and the plotters want it back.
Leiden with innuendo, this popular TV series spun off into a number of films, taking the Asterisk view of history.

are you being served? (1977)

"Is that your age or your bust measurement?"
The staff of Grace Brothers department store go on a holiday to the Costa Plonka and end up in the middle of a revolution.
The British sit-com spin-off, which proves the age old adage, that what you can put up with for half an hour on television, makes for a lousy ninety minutes sat in the cinema! The stock xenophobia, letchery and gay jokes abound, making you realise just how unfunny Britain in the 70's could be.