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Before the Fringe

on BBC One London

Highlights of famous revues.
Introduced by Alan Melville.
Starring this week: Marcia Ashton, Hermione Baddeley, Douglas Byng, Patrick Cargill, Neil Fitzwilliam, Josephine Gordon, Barrie Gosney, John Hewer, Brian Hunt,
Peter Reeves, Joan Sims, Ronnie Stevens, Barbara Windsor, Aubrey Woods

"To our delight, people who were in nappies when Miss Gingold was in Sweet and Low, or evacuated while Miss Baddeley carried on - outrageously - in London laughed a great deal and seemed somewhat astonished that we old fogies did, said, and wrote such things in those far-off days."
So wrote Alan Melville introducing the second series of Before the Fringe on BBC-2 last year. And now people who missed the programmes can see them in the next six weeks.

Contributors

Presenter/Written, composed, or devised by:
Alan Melville
Written, composed, or devised by:
Ronnie Cass
Written, composed, or devised by:
Herbert Farjeon
Written, composed, or devised by:
Ray Galton
Written, composed, or devised by/compiled by:
Peter Myers
Written, composed, or devised by:
Cole Porter
Written, composed, or devised by:
Alan Simpson
Written, composed, or devised by:
Charles Zwar
Music arranged and conducted by:
Dennis Wilson
Theme music composed by:
Malcolm Lockyer
Designer:
Denis Gordon-Orr
Producer:
Robin Nash
Performer:
Marcia Ashton
Performer:
Hermione Baddeley
Performer:
Douglas Byng
Performer:
Patrick Cargill
Performer:
Neil Fitzwilliam
Performer:
Josephine Gordon
Performer:
Barrie Gosney
Performer:
John Hewer
Performer:
Brian Hunt
Performer:
Peter Reeves
Performer:
Joan Sims
Performer:
Ronnie Stevens
Performer:
Barbara Windsor
Performer:
Aubrey Woods

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