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The Bishop Sees a Ghost

All Gas and GaitersSeries 1
Episode 5 of 13

Can the Bishop calm the congregation when they get a fright? Stars Derek Nimmo and Robertson Hare. From February 1971.

Can the Bishop calm the congregation when they get a fright? Stars Derek Nimmo and Robertson Hare.

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
The Bishop's Chaplain …. Derek Nimmo
The Dean …. John Barron
Mrs Pugh Critchley....Joan Sanderson
The Ghost …. Gerald Cross
Scan …. Ronald Forfar

'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 February 1971.

30 minutes

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