Heroes of Comedy

Heroes of Comedy is a British television series, produced by Thames Television, and broadcast on Channel 4, which devotes each episode to a legend of British comedy. It was produced by John Fisher. Beginning in 1995, it followed a 2½ hour more general programme from 1992.

Episodes

Series one

Contributions from Roy Hudd and Bob Monkhouse. An animatronic Miller was created for the programme and performed by David Barclay, Dave Chapman and Mike Quinn.

Series two

Episode number	Subject	Original air date
1	Les Dawson	16 April 1997
2	Kenny Everett	23 April 1997
3	Alastair Sim	30 April 1997
4	The Goons*	7 May 1997

The first group subject, and the first where two of the performers covered were alive at the time of broadcast.

Series three

This series examined dead performers.

Series four

All subjects in this series were living at the time of broadcast.

Series five

This series examined living and dead performers.

Series six

Previously covered as part of the Goons episode. Aired three days after Milligan's death.