by Colin Morris
The 21st anniversary production
Recorded before an Army audience at Aldershot
Starring Brian Rix as Horace Gregory

Brian Rix originally presented this funniest of all theatre farces in 1950, and the then unknown actor-manager became an overnight star. The play also provided television's first West End theatre excerpt, beginning an association between Brian Rix and the BBC which has continued to this day.

(Sandra Duncan is appearing in "The Secretary Bird" at the Savoy Theatre, London)
"If it's laughter you're after, here it is!" (Evening Standard)
"A mirthquake" (Sunday Pictorial)
"Uproarious evening" (Manchester Evening News)
(Down memory lane... with Brian Rix and the conscript generation: see page 6)
(Next week at 8.15: The Two Ronnies)