It featured monologues, songs and sketches that had been popularised during the era of music hall, which were performed by a large cast, including Leonard Rossiter, Cilla Black and Julie Walters.

Hosted by British comedian Barry Cryer, the show was recorded on location in the summer of 1982 at the Foundling Museum in London and made and devised by The Bright Thoughts Company[3] The program's title was taken from the 1920s monologue The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog, by Scottish comedian Billy Bennett.

Sherrin offered the most praise for Arthur Askey, and commented that "his final sentence was addressed in a confidential aside to the camera, buttonholing the audience confidently to remind us that he was the first comedian ever to do that".

[4] Benny Green reviewed the series for Punch, and described Diane Langton's rendition of Brahn Boots as "affectingly faultless".

"[5] In an overview article published in British Comedy Guide in 2022, Rob Brown expressed the view that "with all the cast dressed in formal attire appropriate for a sophisticated dinner party of the 1920s, the results were simply wondrous, and, in hindsight, mark a moment of transition in British comedy: a symbolic handing of the baton to a new generation of comic talent"[2].