Happiest Days Of Your Life, The (BBC 1947 with Nigel Stock and Richard Goolden)

UK / BBC / 1×90 minute episode / Broadcast 4 February 1947 (and again on 6 Feb)

Writer: John Dighton / Producer: Stephen Harrison

Comedy. Chaos reigns when a boys school is forced to share it’s facilities with a girls school. Made into a film starring Alastair Sim and Margaret Ritherford three years later.

Broadcast live and re-staged two days later.

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cast
Nigel Stock as Dick Tassell
Richard Turner as Rainbow
Brian Oulton as Billings
Richard Goolden as Pond
Jane Henderson as Miss Whitchurch
Marjorie Gresley as Miss Gossage
Ray Jackson as Hopcroft Minor
Deidre Doone as Barbara Marchbanks
Hilary Liddell as Joyce Harper
Graveley Edwards as The Reverend Edward Perk
Hilda Davies as Mrs Perk
Edward Lexy as Edgar Sowter
Una Venning as Mrs Sowter

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