High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rising Damp is British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV. ITV originally broadcast the programme from 1974 through 1978. It was adapted for television by Eric Chappell from his well-received 1971 stage play, The Banana Box (retained as the working title early in the series.) The series was the highest-ranking ITV sitcom on the 100 Best Sitcoms poll run in 2004 by the BBC.