The Cannon & Ball Show: Episode list

With guest stars Liza Goddard and Michael Robbins.

With guest stars Maureen Lipman and Sydney Tafler.

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

With guest star June Whitfield.

With guest star Hugh Paddick.

With guest stars Bernard Kay and Irene Handl.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

With guests Jeep, Dai Francis and John Boulter.

With guests Anne Murray and Ritz

With guest Anne Murray.

With guests Lulu and Cornsilk.

With guest Alan Price.


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

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

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

Featuring comedy legend and veteran entertainer Bruce Forsyth.

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

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

Featuring perennial pop favourite Leo Sayer.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?