The Chigwell Chicken

Summary

1958 Associated-Rediffusion production for ITV of The Chigwell Chicken, a farce by A. P. Dearsley.

Theatre play

The Chigwell Chicken by A. P. Dearsley [more information]

Play synopsis

Farce. ‘Who wins the fight at Wally’s Slugaroo? The Chigwell Chicken? The Death Watch Beetle? Or Archdeacon Humphrey Pomfret?' (TV Times, 13 June 1958, p. 16).

Production history

Certainly performed on the stage before 1958, but the date of its first staging is uncertain. The 1960 film version of this play is titled And the Same to You.

Date of transmission

Wednesday 18 June 1958

Time

8.30-10.00pm

Series

Play of the Week

Channel

ITV

Production company

Associated-Rediffusion (1955-1964)

Credits

Director

Ronald Marriott

Playwright

A. P. Dearsley

Adapted for Television by

Hazel Adair

Sets / Settings

George Haslam

Cast

Max Bacon	Samuel Marks
Vera Day	Cynthia Tripp
Colin Douglas	Police Constable
Bill Fraser	George Nibbs
Lawrence James	Horace Hawkins
Sidney James	Wally Burton
Henry Kendall	Archdeacon Humphrey Pomfret
Olive Milbourne	Mildred Pomphret
Brian Oulton	Rev. Sidney Mullett
David Stoll	Dickie Marchant
Peter Welch	Percy Gibbons

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

Christianity; farce; religious order

Print sources

Title

TV Times, 13 June 1958 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article, p. 16; listing, p. 31