A Likely Tale

Summary: BBC Television production of Gerald Savory’s comedy A Likely Tale.
Theatre play: A Likely Tale by Gerald Savory (1909-1996) [more information]
Play synopsis: The scene of this comedy is a Victorian house near Wimbledon Common. ‘The old man is dying. His three adult children attend him. To keep them on their toes and out of malice he keeps changing his will in favour of a different offspring. His grandson Jonah arrives and is determined to get into the will by sucking up to his grandfather. But grandfather’s eye has been caught by the new maid and in his latest will he leaves everything to her. Jonah turns his attention to one of his aunts thinking that if he seduces her he might get his hands on some of the property that way. It turns out that there is no money left and nobody will get anything from the will’ (source: http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/savory-gerald.html#30885).
Production history: Grand Theatre, Blackpool, January 1956.
Date of transmission: Saturday 26 April 1958
Time: 9.00pm (75 mins)
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

Barbara Burnham

Playwright

Gerald Savory (1909-1996)

Designer

Richard Wilmot

Cast

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