Barmy Productions
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Comedy Gold! Barmy Dale has been described as the classic British Sitcom, bringing together many of the loved comedy sitcom actors of the 80s and 90's. Barmy Dale follows the hilarious antics of the residents in the fictional Derbyshire town of the same name. Barmy Dale has been nominated for several awards including Best Podcast at the World Wide Comedy Awards. It is listened to by an enthusiastic podcast audience and on multiple local radio stations in the UK. Inspired by sitcoms like Allo Allo, Are you Being Served, Hi De Hi and more. Barmy Dale is written by Martin...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
An ensemble sitcom that turns gossip, embarrassment and badly planned schemes into steadily escalating farce.
Barmy Dale - Comedy Podcast (Sitcom) builds its scripted ensemble comedy by letting gossip harden into certainty, then sending everyone off to make matters worse.
One misplaced hand at dinner, and your appetite for mortifying misunderstandings has found its match.
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A small suspicion escalates into a town-sized scandal, and the episode keeps it brisk.
Balmydale runs on a wife-swapping panic and keeps the whole thing moving with brisk, straight-faced chaos. Sharon and Dan try to raise a delicate concern with Lord Palmer, then turn a private worry into a public showdown, and the comedy works because everyone keeps missing…
A kiss, a dry ice machine, and a fire alarm turn a small grievance into a rooftop caper.
Alice keeps pressing Dennis at work to recover a summer from 1975 or 1976, and that old kiss quickly becomes a fresh problem. The scene works through blunt denial, fast reversals, and the growing sense that everyone involved is already in deeper than they meant to go.
A break in plan that gets funnier as it falls apart.
Keith and Dan stay locked in a break in plan that keeps slipping out of their hands, and that is where the scene gets its bite. They start by trying to reach the security office through the ladies' toilet and a vent, only to find the footage is digital, not on tapes.
A dinner table misunderstanding spills into a bathroom door farce.
This episode plays as a proper farce: a dinner table mix-up over a chair, a waitress, and an unwelcome touch keeps swelling into something louder and more awkward.
Village panic, deadpan quips, and a curse nobody wants to test.
A missing husband, a Russian woman, and a half-remembered legend about the Balmydale Cross send the village into panic, and Barmy Dale squeezes plenty from the smallest domestic humiliations along the way.
A town hall caper built on awkward reunion energy, quick cover stories, and escalating mishaps.
Barmy Army Part 1 opens at the town hall with a dry-ice machine, an awkward reunion, and a plan that gets moving fast. Alice pushes through the encounter, Dennis struggles to keep pace, and the scene keeps tipping into embarrassment as the cover story starts to fray.
A gnome chase that keeps getting dafter as it drops underground.
A golf course caper with a missing gnome at the center, this one keeps the joke moving from the 11th fairway to a hatch, then down into a tunnel and on to Barbiedale Prison.
In the village of Barmydale, a search for a legendary solid gold cross pits a pompous archaeologist against a bitter ex-colleague with an old grudge.
In this sitcom episode, local rivals Keith and Dan compete against archaeologist Dr.
In this sitcom episode, former SAS officer Keith and his companion Dan attempt to retrieve a document from Berksworth Town Hall with help from a hilariously incompetent support team.
In the fictional town of Barbidale, Reverend Wilkins discovers his prize-winning gnome Seamus has gone missing just before the annual Gnome Display Competition.
In the fictional town of Barmydale, mailman Arthur Ramsbottom dies suddenly after visiting the mayoress with a secret idea to make everyone rich.
In this sitcom episode, Dan and Keith get arrested while trying to catch a gnome thief, leading their wives to investigate and also end up in prison.
The episode is mostly sponsor copy: a post-holiday Omaha Steaks read about resetting with high-quality proteins, plenty of variety, and a site-wide sale, followed by a Red Circle spot about podcast hosting, targeted ad sales, and matching shows with sponsors.
Pub regulars Keith and Dan invest their savings in a new high-class restaurant, only to discover their partners are a blind Romanian chef with a shady past and a prisoner using it as a front for a diamond smuggling operation.
Keith and Dan are assigned a spy mission to retrieve a document from Berksworth Town Hall, aided by a hilariously incompetent support team consisting of Willie, Alice, and Margaret.
Keith is already rattled.
Barmy Dale - Comedy Podcast (Sitcom), "Lady Palmer And The Tramp," turns on a town-wide misunderstanding about wife-swapping, pampas grass, and a supposed affair between Keith Meadows and the mayoress.
In this Christmas comedy episode, criminals Keith and Dan find themselves locked in bins by Branston who has stolen Santa's sack meant for deprived children.
In this comedy sitcom episode, Reverend Wilkins' prized gnome is stolen just before the Barmydale Gnome Display Competition, leading to accusations against residents Keith and Dan.
In this comedy sitcom episode, characters are held hostage in a church by Branston who demands to know what idea mailman Arthur shared with the mayoress before dying.
Barmy Dale’s “Carry on to Llandudno - Part 3” follows Keith and Gracie Meadows on a drive to Llandudno and the Paradise Hotel.
Barmy Dale's "The Face Masked Crusaders - Part 1" follows Keith and Dan as a face-mask advert and a stolen purse create trouble around the number 22 bus.