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...
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farces for Walls and his team; the last in the series closed in 1933. Most of the farces were adapted for film in the 1930s and 1940s, with Travers writing...
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Weavers Green (1966, TV serial) David Copperfield (1969, TV film) Ben Travers' Farces (1970, 3 episodes) The Befrienders (1970, TV film) – Janet Jane Eyre...
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Various characters Marriage Lines (1961–1966) – George Starling Ben Travers' Farces (1970) – Various characters Rookery Nook (1970) – Gerald Popkiss...
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The Aldwych farces were a series of twelve stage farces presented at the Aldwych Theatre, London, nearly continuously from 1923 to 1933. All but three...
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Some of the English Aldwych farces by Ben Travers which were popular in the 1920s and 1930s have aspects of "bedroom farce", e.g. A Cuckoo in the Nest...
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Wise Show (1971 and 1977), alongside Richard Briers in a series of Ben Travers farces for the BBC, as the pompous Dr Maxwell in the ITV comedy Doctor at...
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(1967) as Montague Dartie The Champions (1968) as Douglas Trennick Ben Travers' Farces (1970) as Various roles Bless This House (1971) as Dr. Ian McLaren...
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Ralph Lynn (section Aldwych farces)
co-starred in a series of successful farces, most of which were written for them by Ben Travers. Many of the Aldwych farces were made into films starring Lynn...
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She Follows Me About (category Plays by Ben Travers)
mischievous dare. In 1970 it was adapted by the BBC for an episode of Ben Travers' Farces featuring Arthur Lowe and Richard Briers. It was the only one of...
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A Cup of Kindness (play) (category Plays by Ben Travers)
a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the sixth in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented...
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A Cuckoo in the Nest (category Plays by Ben Travers)
a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the second in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented...
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A Bit of a Test (category Plays by Ben Travers)
A Bit of a Test is a farce by Ben Travers. It was the last, and least successful, of the series of twelve Aldwych farces that ran in uninterrupted succession...
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Thark (play) (category Plays by Ben Travers)
a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the fourth in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented...
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Rookery Nook (1970 TV drama) (category Aldwych farce)
production was based on the play Rookery Nook, one of the Aldwych farces, by Ben Travers. First transmitted by the BBC on 19 September 1970, it was made...
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(1970–1971) Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (1969–1970) 19 September Ben Travers' Farces (1970) The Pink Panther Show (1969–1980) 15 October – Play for Today...
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version in 1975. She worked again for Anderson in the long running Ben Travers farce The Bed Before Yesterday at London's Lyric Theatre in 1975. "Gabrielle...
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Banana Ridge (play) (category Plays by Ben Travers)
the 1920s and 30s Travers had written nine farces which, with three by other authors, were known collectively as the Aldwych farces. The series had run...
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Turkey Time (play) (category Plays by Ben Travers)
Turkey Time is a farce by Ben Travers. It was one of the series of Aldwych farces that ran nearly continuously at the Aldwych Theatre in London from 1923...
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A Night Like This (play) (category Plays by Ben Travers)
A Night Like This is a farce by Ben Travers, written as one of the series of Aldwych farces staged nearly continuously at the Aldwych Theatre, London,...
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Rookery Nook (film) (category Aldwych farce)
is a 1930 film farce, directed by Tom Walls, with a script by Ben Travers. It is a screen adaptation of the original 1926 Aldwych farce of the same title...
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Turkey Time (1970 film) (category Aldwych farce)
production was based on the play Turkey Time, one of the Aldwych farces, by Ben Travers. First transmitted by the BBC on 3 October 1970, Turkey Time was...
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Dirty Work (play) (category Plays by Ben Travers)
Dirty Work is a farce by Ben Travers. It was one of the series of twelve Aldwych farces that ran in uninterrupted succession at the Aldwych Theatre in...
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Liza in If at the Ambassador's in May 1921, and the Old Woman in Ben Travers's farcical comedy The Dippers produced by Sir Charles Hawtrey at the Criterion...
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Plunder (play) (category Plays by Ben Travers)
a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the fifth in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented...
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one of Cushing's favourite actors. In 1965, Cushing appeared in the Ben Travers farce play Thark at Westminster's Garrick Theatre. It was his final stage...
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Rookery Nook (play) (category Plays by Ben Travers)
together with Leslie Henson, produced the series of Aldwych farces, nearly all written by Ben Travers, starring Walls and his co-star Ralph Lynn, who specialised...
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Robertson Hare (category Aldwych farce)
of most of the farces. After the Aldwych series came to an end, Hare continued to be cast in similar roles in new plays by Ben Travers and many others...
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play by Ben Travers broadcast on 23 May 1953. Featuring in this version were Peter Cushing, David Stoll, and Lally Bowers. It was based on Travers' play...
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also appeared on stage, e.g. in Rookery Nook, one of the Aldwych farces by Ben Travers. Red Wagon (1933) The Elder Brother (1937) Behind Your Back (1937)...
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