One Wild Oat

Summary

1964 BBC production of the farce One Wild Oat by Vernon Sylvaine, in the Laughter from the Whitehall series.

Theatre play

One Wild Oat by Vernon Sylvaine [more information]

Play synopsis

Farce in which the solicitor Humphrey Proudfoot, appalled at the prospect of his daughter marrying the son of the bounder Alfred Gilbey, does some digging into Gilbey’s past but ends up hoist by his own petard.

Production history

First produced shortly after the Second World War.

Date of transmission

Saturday 1 August 1964

Time

8.25-9.55pm

Series

Brian Rix Presents; Laughter from the Whitehall

Channel

BBC1

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Wallace Douglas

Playwright

Vernon Sylvaine

Sets / Settings

Stanley Moore

Cast

Arthur Barrett	Fred Gilbey
Jeanne Cooke	Annie
Pearson Dodd	Gregory Throstle
Hazel Douglas	Audrey Cuttle
Leo Franklyn	Charles
Hy Hazell	Lydia Gilbey
Helen Jessop	Gloria Samson
Waveney Lee	Cherrie Proudfoot
Basil Lord	Alfred Gilbey
Sheila Mercier	Caroline Proudfoot
George Moon	Mr Samson
Larry Noble	Mr Pepys
Brian Rix (1924-)	Humphrey Proudfoot

Additional details

Later transmissions

Repeated on BBC2 on 27 August 1965.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

farce; marriage

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 30 July 1964 (Magazine)

Linking notes

illustrated article, p. 5; listing, p. 9