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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 BBC 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 BBC1 from 1966 to 1971.
Selected scripts were revised and re-recorded for radio.
Producer: David Hatch.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1972.
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