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Ben Travers Farces
Overview
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 and 31 October 1970. Each was a stand-alone adaptation of a farce by Ben Travers. The first six episodes were adaptations of Aldwych Farces beginning with Rookery Nook while the seventh She Follows Me About was based on his wartime play of the same title.
Status
Returning Series
Created By
Ben Travers
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes
Rookery Nook
A young woman, dressed in pyjamas, seeks refuge from her bullying stepfather at a country house in the middle of the night.
A Cuckoo in the Nest
A man and a woman, who are each married to other people. While travelling together, they are obliged by circumstances to share a hotel bedroom. Everyone else assumes the worst, but the two travellers are able to prove their innocence.
Turkey Time
Set at Christmas, it centers around a Christmas holiday at the Stoatt household where two guests become entangled with a stranded performer
A Cup of Kindness
The son and daughter of two feuding families announce their upcoming marriage, to widespread uproar.
Plunder
Two friends commit a jewel robbery, for arguably honourable reasons, with fatal results.
Dirty Work
The maladroit but ultimately successful efforts of a shop-walker to outwit a gang of jewel thieves.
She Follows Me About
A harassed vicar has to cope with some mischievous girls and a bishop who is not all he seems.
Top Cast
Arthur Lowe
Clement Peck
Richard Briers
Charlie Tutt
Terence Alexander
Charlie
Jenny McCracken
Barbara Wykeham
Megs Jenkins
Mrs. Hewlett
Frank Thornton
Claude Hickett MP
Polly Adams
Benny
Tim Barrett
Oswald Veal
Geoffrey Palmer
Hugh Stafford
Jessica Benton
Millie
Elizabeth Knight
Rhoda Marley
Irene Handl
Mrs. Bugle
