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Playhouse: The Christmas Cuckoo

BBC One
on BBC One London

by Kay McManus

Things look bad for Spare and Scrub when a new cobbler takes all their business, but everything changes when, on Christmas Eve, the brothers find a very special cuckoo in a hollow log.

Contributors

Writer:
Kay McManus
Designer:
Christine Ruscoe
Executive Producer:
Anna Home
Producer:
Angela Beeching
Director:
Roger Singleton-Turner
Spare:
Anthony Head
Scrub, his brother:
David Beckett
Fairfeather:
Irene Richard
King:
Ronald Hines
Queen/Cuckoo:
Jo Maxwell-Muller
Lord Grandiose:
Harold Innocent
Tinseltoes, a footman:
Hugh Walters
Fiddler:
Julian Smedley
Source: Radio Times

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