The BFI’s Dick Fiddy who, along with historian Mark Lewisohn, identified Pinwright’s Progress as the first sitcom, compares it to Open All Hours: “A much more primitive version, definitely, but I ...

Pinwright's Progress was a British sitcom that aired on the BBC Television Service from 1946 to 1947 and was the world's first regular half-hour televised sitcom. The ten episodes, which aired ...