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Terry-Thomas - Top of the Town

Episode 1

Duration: 10 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

After the gap-toothed cad playing actor Terry-Thomas made a pilot in 1953, Top of The Town ran for two series of 16 hour-long programmes, broadcast weekly between 1953 and 1955.

In the first of two surviving series extracts, Terry-Thomas pays homage to the greatest famous face to come out of Finchley - Terry-Thomas!

With Joan Sims and Leslie Mitchell.

Programme based on an idea by Terry Thomas

Script editor: Jimmy Grafton

Producer: Dennis Main Wilson.

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1954. Show less

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