TV
Comedy Playhouse: The Importance Of Being Hairy (BBC-1 6 May 1971, with Gerald Flood)
One off comedy The Importance Of Being Hairy was made under the Comedy Playhouse banner with the hopes of a series emerging. The staff at the University of Wessex try to elect a new Reader in the Popular Arts whilst all around them their students are creating havoc.
production details
UK / BBC One / 1×30 minute episode / Broadcast Thursday 6 May 1971 @ 7.40pm
Writer: Kingsley Amis / Producer: Graeme Muir
Series: Comedy Playhouse Season 12 Episode 6
cast
GERALD FLOOD as Peter Hastings
DOUG FISHER as Tom Potts
JOHN CATER as Dr Chatterjee
LOUIE RAMSEY as Jill Hastings
GEORGE HOWE as Prof Shillito
PEARL HACKNEY as Dora Leach
JAMES COPELAND as Prof MacDonald