First of the series simply titled "Dave Allen".
10 years after the original 'Dave Allen' Series, the BBC bring back Dave for another 30 minutes of stand up, and no sketches.
A special holiday edition featuring the unique wit, observations and humour of Dave Allen.
Reflecting on the career of Dave Allen, the Irish comedian who cut his teeth at Butlins, became a TV star in Australia and returned home to dominate the schedules in Britain.
An anthology of Dave Allen's finest, funniest and most irreverent material, compiled from his time at the BBC from 1971 to 1986.
The best of Dave Allen's stand-up shows compiled by Allen himself with Margot Eavis. 2014 DVD release was given the title "Dave Allen Live ...On Life".
A personal selection of 90 minutes of the finest gags from the grand master of innovative comedy, introduced by the man himself.
Dave Allen was an alternative comedian before the phrase existed, an innovator who set the agenda for comedy and comedians for more than 30 years. Here is his personal choice of sketches, gags and monologues that wickedly target the foibles of our age. With suit, a stool and a glass of something he was in his element, reflecting laconically on such diverse subjects as sex, the Irish and God, traffic, smoking, the Bible, life, and death. It's a vintage display from unique raconteur, a man who observed our guilt, weaknesses and doubts and made us laugh at them and at ourselves.
A 1974 documentary in which Dave Allen meets a variety of eccentrics, including a man who lives in a box on wheels, a cowboy vicar and a man who pretends to fly a Lancaster bomber in his garage.
A special holiday edition featuring the unique wit, observations and humour of Dave Allen.
A 2021 compilation marking 50 years since the seminal series Dave Allen at Large, a selection of favourite monologues from across the much-loved comedian’s career. Armed with his trademark props, he sits on a stool, sips his whisky and reflects on the idiocies of life, meditating on everything from the process of ageing through to the invasive tendencies of the modern telephone. [This is a slight re-edit of the 1998 compilation of the same name.]
