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The Navy Lark: Series 5: HMS Troutbridge Gets a Rocket

20/04/2012

HMS Troutbridge Gets a Rocket

Series 5

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Navy Lark, Series 5, HMS Troutbridge Gets a Rocket

Paranoia sets in when the crew are charged with a top secret mission. Stars Jon Pertwee.

Paranoia sets in when the crew are charged with a top secret mission. Stars Jon Pertwee and Leslie Philips. From May 1963.

Paranoia sets in when the crew of HMS Troutbridge are charged with a top secret mission.

Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Ronnie Barker as Captain Bell, Richard Caldicote as Captain Povey and Tenniel Evans as Taffy Goldstein. 

Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen series between 1959 and 1976. 

Scripted by Lawrie Wyman 

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1963.

The Navy Lark: Series 5

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Sitcom about life aboard a British frigate named HMS Troutbridge, based in HMNB Portsmouth

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