A Cuckoo in the Nest

Summary

1958 BBC production of the farce A Cuckoo in the Nest by Ben Travers.

Theatre play

A Cuckoo in the Nest by Ben Travers [more information]

Play synopsis

A farce in which Peter is suspected by his wife Barbara of eloping with an old friend, Margaret. They are pursued to the country by Barbara and her parents.

Production history

Aldwych Theatre, 1925.

Date of transmission

Sunday 21 December 1958

Time

8.00-9.30pm

Series

Sunday-Night Theatre; Brian Rix Presents

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Jack Williams

Television Presentation by

Mary Evans

Playwright

Ben Travers

Composer

Tommy Watt

Musical Direction

Tommy Watt

Sets / Settings

Rhoda Gray

Interval Drawings by

Bruce Angrave

Cast

Gerald Andersen	Claude-Hickett, MP
Wynne Clark	Mrs Spoker
Ray Cooney	Alfred
Hazel Douglas	Gladys
Leo Franklyn	Major George Bone
Elspeth Gray	Margaret Hickett
Helen Jessop	Barbara Wykeham
Peter Mercier	Chauffeur
Sheila Mercier	Mrs Rawlins
Larry Noble	Noony
Cicely Paget-Bowman	Mrs Bone
Brian Rix (1924-)	Peter Wykeham
Andrew Sachs	The Rev. Cathcart Sloley-Jones

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

farce; marriage

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 19 December 1958 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, with image, p. 13