Learning on ScreenBob’s Your Uncle
- Summary
- 1949 BBC live studio presentation of the successful musical comedy Bob’s Your Uncle, with the original cast from the 1948 premiere at the Savoy Theatre, London.
- Theatre play
- Bob’s Your Uncle by Noel Gay and Austin Melford and Frank Eyton [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Saturday 13 August 1949
- Time
- 8.00-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Television Production by
- Walter Anderson
- Theatre Producer
- John Buckley
- Theatre Producer
- Leslie Henson
- Theatre Director
- Leslie Henson
- Theatre Director
- Austin Melford
- Book by
- Austin Melford
- Music
- Noel Gay
- Lyrics
- Frank Eyton
- Orchestra Directed by
- Eric Robinson
- Sets / Settings
- Richard R. Greenough
- Costume Designer
- R. St. John Roper
- Cast
Duggie Ascot Ricci Chisholm Connor Clemency Davis Guy Fane Manager Alec Finter Godfrey Fogg Malcolm Goddard Waiter Leslie Henson Robert Popejoy Gordon Humphris Hector Philpot Deidre Kirkpatrick Benita Lydal Joy Lynn Helen McNair Austin Melford Mandeville Hamish Menzies Dick Allan Paxi Montay Robin Nash Michael O’Connor Vera Pearce Mrs Edgoose Sheila Douglas Pennant Sheila Popejoy Audrey Perren Doreen Richards Maid Leslie Richards Valerie Tandy June Philpot Betty Tarrant Jackson Walker Boots Michael Walker Gilbert Warden George Woolley A. A. Man / Fred Elizabeth York
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.00pm on Tuesday 16 August 1949.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- comedy; musical
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 5 August 1949 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 39; brief article, p. 36
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