Big Bad Mouse [extract]

Summary

1966 BBC presentation of an extract from the production of the comedy hit Big Bad Mouse by Philip King and Falkland L. Cary at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London.

Theatre play

Big Bad Mouse by Philip King and Falkland L. Cary [more information]

Play synopsis

An anything-can-happen West End comedy hit. The story concerns a meek office executive who rises in esteem when he is accused of attacking a girl on Wandsworth Common.

Production history

First produced in Worthing, Sussex in 1964 (http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsK/king-philip.html#19297).

Date of transmission

Monday 12 December 1966

Time

9.45-10.25pm

Channel

BBC1

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Alexander Dore

Television Presentation by

John Vernon

Playwright

Falkland L. Cary

Playwright

Philip King

Designer

Brian Currah

Cast

Anna Carteret	Fiona Jones
Elspeth Duxbury	Miss Spencer
Jimmy Edwards	Mr Price-Hargreaves
Bunny May	Harold Hopkins
Clovissa Newcombe	Doris Povey
Eric Sykes	Mr Bloom
Joan Young	Lady Chesapeake

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

comedy; sexual violence

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 8 December 1966 (Magazine)

Linking notes

illustrated article, p. 21; listing, p. 24