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Country of origin United Kingdom No. of series 3 Running time 30 min Final episode date 8 October 1983 Number of episodes 18 (17 plus 1 special) | 7.1/10 IMDb Original language(s) English No. of episodes 18 (17 plus 1 special) First episode date 1 July 1981 Network BBC One | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Tracey Ullman
Lenny Henry
David Copperfield Awards British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance Cast Tracey Ullman, Lenny Henry, David Copperfield Similar A Kick Up the Eighties, The Lenny Henry Show, Girls on Top, Tracey Takes On, Tracey Ullman's State of th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Three of a Kind is a British comedy sketch show starring comedians Tracey Ullman, Lenny Henry and David Copperfield. Three series were made by the BBC between 1981 and 1983.
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The show bolstered the careers of Ullman and Henry, as well as being an outlet for young writers including Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, Ian Hislop and Nick Revell.
Ullman and Henry went on to greater success after the show, with Ullman initially launching a brief but successful pop career in 1983 before starring in the ITV sitcom Girls On Top in 1985 and then going on to a high-profile career on American television. Henry was given his own BBC series The Lenny Henry Show in 1984 and he remains a semi-regular fixture on British television to this day. Copperfield, however, garnered less success and has been seen relatively little since the series ended.
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Video and DVD
A single video of the show, entitled Three of a Kind and released under the "Best of British Comedy" banner, appeared in 1988 from 20th Century Fox. It contained the four episodes of the first series edited together into one programme without the musical guest performances.
The same video was released earlier in the UK in 1985 by BBC Video and rereleased in 1998 under Paradox Videos. In 2005 and 2006, DVDs of each series were released in the United Kingdom by 2entertain/BBC Worldwide.