Four comedies by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson celebrating the 50th anniversary of their writing partnership. These four radio adaptations of their scripts for BBC TVs Comedy Playhouse were originally broadcast on Radio 4 of a Tuesday morning at 11.30am, with the repeat at 6.30pm 6 months later.
| Tx. Date | Rpt. Date | Title | Details |
| 29.12.98 | 19.5.99 | Clicquot Et Fils | A firm of undertakers in 1920s France has fallen on hard times, usurped by its more modern rivals. What it needs is a really sumptuous funeral - an old-fashioned, publicity-gathering blockbuster.. With Richard Griffiths, Roger Lloyd Pack and Josie Lawrence. |
| 5.1.99 | Nought For Thy Comfort | If, after having been dumped by your wife, you decide to commit suicide, you would think somebody would try to stop you. You do not expect the Samaritans to moan about being phoned in the early hours of the morning. With Robert Dawes and Nina Wadia. | |
| 12.1.99 | 2.6.99 | A Clerical Error | If you decide to dress up as a clergyman to extract money from punters for charities, make sure you are nowhere near a would-be suicide who is on the balcony outside the room where you have taken a lady of the night. With Keith Barron, June Whitfield and Josie Lawrence. |
| 19.1.99 | 9.6.99 | The Offer | The story of Albert and Harold, father and son rag-and-bone men, who cannot live with and cannot live without one another. This piece was later developed to become 'Steptoe and Son'. With Freddie Jones and John Thomson. |