Live From Her Majesty's
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Live From Her Majesty's was a Sunday night variety show which ran on ITV for three seasons from 1982 to 1985. It was compered by the Liverpudlian comedian, Jimmy Tarbuck and was much in the tradition of earlier variety spectacles such as Sunday Night at the London Palladium. It is notorious as being the programme on which the fez topped television comedian, Tommy Cooper collapsed and died, part way through his act, in 1984. The series was produced by the then Head of Light Entertainment at LWT, David Bell and directed by Alasdair Macmillan. In its day, the programme attracted a large audience and regularly featured in the TV top ten. A further series of six shows followed in 1986 from London's Piccadilly Theatre, airing simply as Live From the Piccadilly. 1987 witnessed yet another change of venue with a further three series airing as Live From the Palladium until the programme's eventual cancellation in 1988.
