| Genre | Sitcom |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | |
| Syndicates | BBC Radio 4 Extra |
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| Created by | James Casey |
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| Recording studio | Hulme Hippodrome, Manchester, UK |
| Original release | 24 April 1956[1] – 13 August 1972[2] |
| No. of series | 17 |
| No. of episodes | 290 |
| Website | www |
The Clitheroe Kid was a BBC Radio comedy show featuring diminutive Northern comic Jimmy Clitheroe in the role of a cheeky schoolboy, who lived with his family at Lilac Avenue in an unnamed town in the North of England. The pilot show, pilot series, and 16 subsequent series, totalling 290 episodes in all, were originally broadcast between April 1957 and August 1972.[1][2][3]
- ^ a b "Northern Variety Parade presents: Jimmy Clitheroe in The Clitheroe Kid". Radio Times. Vol. 131, no. 1693 (Television ed.). BBC Magazines. 20 April 1956. p. 24. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ a b "The Clitheroe Kid". What's the Welsh for Trouble?. Radio Times. Vol. 196, no. 2544 (London ed.). BBC Magazines. 10 August 1972. p. 40. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "Jimmy Clitheroe in The Clitheroe Kid". Radio Times. Vol. 135, no. 1755 (Television ed.). BBC Magazines. 28 June 1957. p. 32. Retrieved 19 February 2020.