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Charlie Drake: The Man with the Golden Hand

on BBC Television

The stirring story of a little security man whose happy family life is disrupted by a noxious habit he has acquired through his devotion to duty.

(First shown on November 25, 1959)

Contributors

Script:
Charlie Drake
Script:
David Cumming
Script:
Derek Collyer
Designer:
Lawrence Broadhouse
Producer:
Ernest Maxin
Himself:
Charlie Drake
Male Nurse:
Michael Henry
Psychiatrist:
Michael Moore
Mabel, Charlie's wife:
Charlotte Mitchell
Grandma:
Hilda Barry
Grandpa:
Gibb McLaughlin
Cyril:
James Langley
Fred, a workman:
Herbert Nelson
Jacob Hepple:
Peter Bathurst
First workman:
Billy Maxam
Second workman:
Harry Lane
Mrs Fordyce, canteen manageress:
Dorothy Darke
Arnold Hepple:
Richard Waring
Bert, of Nicotinics Anonymous:
Sam Kydd

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