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All Gas and Gaiters

Series 2

The Bishop Takes a Holiday

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 7Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

A clerical outing to a dwindling community parish causes chaos.

Ecclesiastical sitcom which started life on BBC TV.

Written and adapted by husband-and-wife team, Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps.

The Archdeacon …. Robertson Hare
The Bishop …. William Mervyn
Noote - Bishop's Chaplain …. Jonathan Cecil
The Dean …. John Barron

With Doris Hare, George Woodbridge, Betty Baskcomb and Neil McDermott.

'All Gas And Gaiters' started life as a TV pilot in Comedy Playhouse, ahead of a run on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971.

Selected scripts were revised and re-recorded for radio.

Producer: David Hatch.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1972. Show less

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