It’s Hello Again from him... and from him

Corbett and Barker were, arguably, the nation’s favourite comedy double act, and series three and four, from 1974/75, which can now be enjoyed again on demand, saw the masters of spoof at their peak. Here you’ll find hapless detectives Charley Farley and Piggy Malone in the serial Death Can Be Fatal, parodies of Upstairs, Downstairs, Barker’s wonderful Minister of Information sketch, dancing from

Pan’s People, Corbett’s classic armchair soliloquys and, of course, their signature parody, the News. It’s no coincidence that their much-loved payoff ‘… and it’s goodnight from him’ is today every bit as iconic as News At Ten’s ‘… and finally’. UKTV Play, available now