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Ask your Dad
A family general knowledge game.
Chairman, Humphrey Lestocq

Children's Newsreel

For Older Children: The Malory Secret
An adventure story freely adapted for television by Macgregor Urquhart from the novel by Gladys Mitchell.

(to 18.00)

Contributors

Chairman (Ask your Dad):
Humphrey Lestocq
Adapted by (The Malory Secret):
Macgregor Urquhart
Author (The Malory Secret):
Gladys Mitchell
Designer (The Malory Secret):
Laurence Broadhouse
Producer (The Malory Secret):
Philip Bate
Pam:
Jane Gowlett
Olive:
Carolyn Garnham
Carol Adams:
Sally Lewis
Glenda:
Anita Jayne
Mr. Adams:
Charles Maunsell
Sir Selim Cortez:
Erik Chitty
Mr. Castleton:
Robert Algar
Miss Fortescue:
Hilary Mason
Jansen:
Robert Lankesheer
Glover:
Muriel Young

with Kenneth Horne in the chair and Josephine Douglas, Carole Carr, Bruce Seton, David Tomlinson finding the links between the challengers.
Special investigators, Pauline and Larry Forrester

Contributors

Chairman:
Kenneth Horne
Panellist:
Josephine Douglas
Panellist:
Carole Carr
Panellist:
Bruce Seton
Panellist:
David Tomlinson
Special investigator:
Pauline Forrester
Special investigator:
Larry Forrester
Presented by:
Ernest Maxin

Stay with the stars at Blackpool and meet your resident hosts Jewel and Warriss and page-boy Jimmy Clitheroe.
Those signing the visitors' book include: Jimmy James, Joan Regan, Jeff Warren, Rob Murray.
Summer Show Girl a search for the 'most beautiful girl in theatreland'
Augmented BBC Northern Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth
Third of six visits to the Norbreck Hydro, Blackpool

(Jewel and Warriss are appearing in "The Big Show of 1955" at the Opera House, Blackpool; Joan Regan is in "Pick of the Pack" at the Queen's Theatre; Jimmy Clitheroe is in "Let's Have Fun" at the Central Pier; Jeff Warren is in "Wedding in Paris" at the Palace Theatre, Manchester; Rob Murray is in "The Norman Evans Show" at the Pier Pavilion, Llandudno)

Contributors

Hosts:
Jewel and Warriss
Page-boy:
Jimmy Clitheroe
Comedian:
Jimmy James
Singer:
Joan Regan
Performer:
Jeff Warren
Juggler:
Rob Murray
Musicians:
Augmented BBC Northern Variety Orchestra
[Orchestra] conducted by:
Alyn Ainsworth
Producer:
Barney Colehan
Producer:
Ronnie Taylor

A comedy by A.P. Dearsley.
The action takes place in and around Dartsend, a small river port.

Contributors

Author:
A.P. Dearsley
Producer:
Chloe Gibson
Designer:
Barry Learoyd
Mr. Sidney Cole:
Frederick Peisley
Miss Ada Green:
Sylvia Coleridge
Judith Palgrave:
Rowena Ingram
Myrtle:
Anna Walmsley
Miss Crane:
Gillian Maude
Mrs. Cribling:
Janet Barrow
George Jarvis:
Richard Pearson
Tom Roker:
John Arnatt
Harry Berks:
Patrick Magee
Walter:
Richard Ives
Harper:
Anthony Selby
Mr. Williams:
Peter Stephens
Reporter:
Graham Ashley
Reporter's friend:
Bryan Kendrick
Sea scout:
Bruce Heighley
Sea scout:
Ian Jameson
Sea scout:
John Ormond
Sea scout:
Roger Page
Other parts played by:
Bartlett Mullins
Other parts played by:
Ronald Wood

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