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Ben Travers' Farces
''Ben Travers' Farces'' is a British comedy television series which originally aired on BBC 1. It ran for a single series of seven episodes between 19 September and 31 October 1970. Each was a stand-alone adaptation of a farce by Ben Travers. The first six episodes were adaptations of Aldwych Farces beginning with '' Rookery Nook'' while the seventh ''She Follows Me About'' was based on his wartime play of the same title.https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/55864029773c441d867f20978569e39f Main Cast * Arthur Lowe (7 episodes) * Richard Briers (7 episodes) * Jenny McCracken (6 episodes) * Megs Jenkins (3 episodes) * Terence Alexander (3 episodes) * Frank Thornton (3 episodes) * Alec Ross (3 episodes) * Tim Barrett (3 episodes) * Irene Handl (2 episodes) * Elizabeth Knight (2 episodes) * Mollie Sugden (2 episodes) * Geoffrey Palmer (2 episodes) * Jessica Benton (2 episodes) * Polly Adams (2 episodes) * Althea Parker (2 episodes) * Jonathan Cecil (2 episodes) * Edward Dentith (2 episodes) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Travers
Ben Travers (12 November 188618 December 1980) was an English writer. His output includes more than 20 plays, 30 screenplays, 5 novels, and 3 volumes of memoirs. He is most notable for his long-running series of farces first staged in the 1920s and 1930s at the Aldwych Theatre. Many of these were made into films and later television productions. After working for some years in his family's wholesale grocery business, which he detested, Travers was given a job by the publisher John Lane in 1911. After service as a pilot in the First World War, he began to write novels and plays. He turned his 1921 novel, '' The Dippers'', into a play that was first produced in the West End in 1922. His big break came in 1925, when the actor-manager Tom Walls bought the performing rights to his play '' A Cuckoo in the Nest'', which ran for more than a year at the Aldwych. He followed this success with eight more farces for Walls and his team; the last in the series closed in 1933. Most of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |