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Terry-Thomas - Top of the Town

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A surviving series extract starring gap-toothed cad of English comedy Terry-Thomas.

A surviving series extract starring gap-toothed cad of English comedy Terry-Thomas. With Joan Sims. From February 1954.

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.

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