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From 03/12/1962
The tramp wants a bath – and a parent is summoned to school. With Nicholas Parsons. Sketches by Johnny Speight. From 1962.
Arthur in his famed role as a tramp - and a school summons from the headmaster.
One of the UK's most popular entertainers of the past.
Arthur Haynes stars in the sketch show series written by Johnny Speight.
With
Nicholas Parsons
Dorothy Dampier
Music by the Temperance Seven.
Part of a selection of surviving episodes.
Producer: Richard Dingley
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1962.
Last on
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