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The Bishop Takes a Holiday

Episode 2 of 20

A clerical outing to a dwindling community parish causes chaos. Adapted from TV, with Jonathan Cecil. From July 1972.

A clerical outing to a dwindling community parish causes chaos.

Ecclesiastical sitcom which started life on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TV.

Written and adapted by husband-and-wife team, Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps.

The Archdeacon …. Robertson Hare
The Bishop …. William Mervyn
Noote - Bishop's Chaplain …. Jonathan Cecil
The Dean …. John Barron

With Doris Hare, George Woodbridge, Betty Baskcomb and Neil McDermott.

'All Gas And Gaiters' started life as a TV pilot in Comedy Playhouse, ahead of a run on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ1 from 1966 to 1971.

Selected scripts were revised and re-recorded for radio.

Producer: David Hatch.

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in July 1972.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 30 Jan 2022 09:00

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