One Wild Oat

Summary

1972 BBC outside broadcast of the farce One Wild Oat by Vernon Sylvaine, recorded at the Grand Theatre, Leeds.

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

Thursday 17 February 1972

Time

8.00-8.50pm

Series

Six of Rix

Channel

BBC1

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Wallace Douglas

Playwright

Vernon Sylvaine

Adaptor of Script

Michael Pertwee (1916-1991)

Sets / Settings

Rhoda Gray

Cast

Peter Bland	Alfred Gilbey
Michael Cronin	Gregory Throstle
Carmel Cryan	Gloria Samson
Leo Franklyn	Charles
Elspeth Gray	Caroline Proudfoot
George Little	Samson
Sheila Mercier	Lydia Gilbey
John Quayle	Fred Gilbey
Brian Rix (1924-)	Humphrey Proudfoot
Joanna Robbins	Cherrie Proudfoot
Derek Royle	Pepys
Stephanie Voss	Audrey Cuttle

Additional details

Play tags

farce; marriage

Programme context tags

outside broadcast

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 10 February 1972 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 42