The Cannon & Ball Show

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A comedy variety show featuring the double act of Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball.

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Season 1

6 episodes

S1 E1 · Show One

With guest stars Liza Goddard and Michael Robbins.

S1 E2 · Show Two

With guest stars Maureen Lipman and Sydney Tafler.

S1 E3 · Show Three

With guest star Ernest Clark. (This episode was shown nearly three months after the previous one due to a strike by ITV technicians.)

S1 E4 · Show Four

With guest star June Whitfield.

S1 E5 · Show Five

With guest star Hugh Paddick.

S1 E6 · Show Six

With guest stars Bernard Kay and Irene Handl.

Season 2

8 episodes

Enjoy more good-natured comedy capers with the dynamic double act and their guests, including movie icon Diana Dors, Liver Bird Elizabeth Estensen, comedy battleaxe Peggy Mount and comedienne Faith Brown.

S2 E1 · Show One

British film icon Diana Dors joins Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball for another helping of tomfoolery in this show. Music is provided by resident band Ritz.

S2 E2 · Show Two

Against his better judgement, Doctor at Large star Ernest Clark is roped into a slapstick mime performance set in a cafeteria.

S2 E3 · Show Three

In another classic show, the dynamic duo are joined by special guest Peggy Mount, everyone's favourite TV battleaxe and unforgettable star of The Larkins and You're Only Young Twice.

S2 E4 · Show Four

Elizabeth Estensen (The Liver Birds) and actress and singer Luan Peters (aka Carol Keyes) have a few surprises in store when they join Tommy and Bobby for another fun-packed show.

S2 E5 · Show Five

More breezy broadsides are fired at various targets, while Ruby James of resident pop group Ritz sighs Anyone Who Had a Heart, and the Ritz boys join Tommy and Bobby for a rendition of Sweet Georgia Brown.

S2 E6 · Show Six

Tommy calls Bobby's bluff and lets him announce the show - giving him a taste of his own medicine along the way!

S2 E7 · Show Seven

Bobby gets into trouble with Tommy when he finds out that they've both been chatting up the same wardrobe girl.

S2 E8 · Special: Cannon and Ball For Christmas

Cannon and Ball see the year out with a bang in the first of their many Christmas specials. Comedienne and impressionist Faith Brown shares in the madness and merriment, and music comes from The Char-lettes - singers with a difference, led by the multi-talented Bertice Reading. The show also features the Alyn Ainsworth Orchestra and the Brian Rogers Dancers.

Season 3

6 episodes

Enjoy more good-natured comedy capers with the dynamic double act and their guests - including Lulu, Canadian singing star Anne Murray, former Animals band member Alan Price, and pop group Ritz.

S3 E1 · Show One

With guests Jeep, Dai Francis and John Boulter.

S3 E2 · Show Two

With guests Anne Murray and Ritz

S3 E3 · Show Three

With guest Anne Murray.

S3 E4 · Show Four

With guests Lulu and Cornsilk.

S3 E5 · Show Five

With guest Alan Price.

S3 E6 · Show Six

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Season 4

7 episodes

Enjoy more good-natured comedy capers with the dynamic double act, whose guests for this series include David Essex, Bruce Forsyth, Steve Davis, Frankie Laine, Leo Sayer and Adam Ant.

S4 E1 · Cannon and Ball at Drury Lane

A comedy special from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, featuring Cannon and Ball and their guests Jack Jones, international illusionist Zee and Co., the Brian Rogers Dancers, and Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra

S4 E2 · Show One

Featuring global singing star Iris Williams, as well as snooker champion Steve Davis.

S4 E3 · Show Two

Featuring the 1970s' Prince of Pop, David Essex.

S4 E4 · Show Three

Featuring comedy legend and veteran entertainer Bruce Forsyth.

S4 E5 · Show Four

A sharp-suited Adam Ant performs his Number One solo hit 'Goody Two Shoes'...and manages to humiliate Bobby and Tommy in the process.

S4 E6 · Show Five

Featuring the multi-talented Frankie Laine, and Tommy and Bobby's lovely Boys in Blue co-star Suzanne Danielle.

S4 E7 · Show Six

Featuring perennial pop favourite Leo Sayer.

Season 5

7 episodes

Enjoy more good-natured comedy capers with the dynamic duo in this fifth series, with guests including Diana Dors, Cliff Richard, Robin Gibb, The Three Degrees, Una Stubbs, Windsor Davies, Status Quo, Sarah Brightman and Shakin' Stevens.

S5 E1 · The Cannon and Ball Easter Show

Tommy and Bobby's Easter guests include the great Eric Sykes, Neasden's Queen of Soul Mari Wilson, Jill Gascoine and singing duo Renee and Renato.

S5 E2 · Show One

Tommy and Bobby are joined by the ageless pop legend Cliff Richard, and Windsor Davis - star of classic sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum.

S5 E3 · Show Two

Tommy and Bobby, Herb Reed (The Platters) and Black Beauty star Stacy Dorning join Status Quo for a rendition of their hit Marguerita Time.

S5 E4 · Show Three

Shakin' Stevens, Sarah Brightman and Jocky Wilson, Kirkaldy's champion of the oche, are the lads' guests for this fun-packed show.

S5 E5 · Show Four

The boys are joined by The Three Degrees, Una Stubbs and Roger Whittaker - who performs I'm Back.

S5 E6 · Show Five

Tommy and Bobby's star guests in this show are Diana Dors and Bee Gee Robin Gibb.

S5 E7 · Show Six

Soul legends The Four Tops and reggae sensation Musical Youth provide the songs in this show, with comic actor Jeffrey Holland also participating in the chaos...

Season 6

6 episodes

Enjoy more good-natured comedy capers in this sixth series, in which Tommy and Bobby are joined by a host of star guests, including Engelbert Humperdinck, Sister Sledge, Jimmy Tarbuck, Rik Mayall, The Beverley Sisters, Richard Clayderman, Big Country, Paul Young, The Flying Pickets and Cockney legends Chas and Dave!

S6 E1 · Show One

Tommy and Bobby's guests include singing stars Engelbert Humperdinck and The Beverley Sisters, and all-girl group The Little Foxes.

S6 E2 · Show Two

The dynamic duo's guests for this show are actor and pop/country star Guy Mitchell, disco legends Sister Sledge, and Scotland's Big Country.

S6 E3 · Show Three

Singer Paul Young and pianist Richard Clayderman are the boys' musical guests on this show.

S6 E4 · Show Four

Guest star Rik Mayall gives Tommy and Bobby the runaround as an infuriatingly obstinate tourist information clerk...

S6 E5 · Show Five

Singer-songwriter Brook Benton, Cockney duo Chas and Dave, Brit-funk band Shakatak, and Grange Hill star Michael Sheard join the boys for another fun-filled show.

S6 E6 · Show Six

Tommy and Bobby's guests are Jimmy Tarbuck, Henry Cooper, and a cappella chart-toppers The Flying Pickets.

Season 7

7 episodes

Enjoy more good-natured comedy capers in this seventh series, which also includes the lads' 1985 Christmas Special, featuring Ruth Madoc and Paul Nicholas.

S7 E1 · Christmas Cannon and Ball

Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball host a Christmas Special, with guests including Hi de Hi star Ruth Madoc and actor/singer Paul Nicholas.

S7 E2 · Show One

The lads recount their experiences while staying in a luxury London apartment during the making of their series; their special guest is Michael Aspel.

S7 E3 · Show Two

A quiet Sunday's Scrabble match is interrupted by the arrival of Britain's happiest married couple.

S7 E4 · Show Three

Tommy and Bobby discover what friendship is all about when a drunken Bobby wakes up with a severe hangover.

S7 E5 · Show Four

Can Bobby keep his temper for a whole day? Tommy bets he can't. But so he can be sure of winning, Bobby plans a few surprises, including a visit to a Japanese restaurant.

S7 E6 · Show Five

Bobby's untidiness becomes such an irritation for Tommy that the boys' friendship is put to the test.

S7 E7 · Show Six

When Tommy catches a cold he thinks he has a deadly virus - and so does Bobby when he mishears the doctor's report on his pal. But is Bobby's concern quite as genuine as it seems?