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Toytown: How the Wireless Came to Toytown
Television Puppet Theatre presents..
Another play by S. G. Hulme Beaman.
Settings by Andrew Brownfoot from illustrations by S. G. Hulme Beaman

Children's Film Magazine
Showing recent items of interest and news events.

The Lost Tribe of Motilon
Ross Salmon continues to describe his adventures in South America in search of the Motilon Indians. He shows film and objects collected during the expedition.

(to 18.00)

Contributors

Writer/illustrations (Toytown):
S. G. Hulme Beaman
Voices (Toytown):
Madi Hedd
Voices (Toytown):
Peter Hawkins
Voices (Toytown):
Noel Coleman
Voices (Toytown):
Roy Skelton
Puppeteers (Toytown):
Audrey Atterbury
Puppeteers (Toytown):
Molly Gibson
Puppeteers (Toytown):
Elizabeth Thorndike
Puppeteers (Toytown):
Bob Bura
Puppeteers (Toytown):
John Hardwick
Puppets/producer (Toytown):
Gordon Murray
Settings (Toytown):
Andrew Brownfoot
Presenter (The Lost Tribe of Motilon):
Ross Salmon

Wilfred and Mabel Pickles visit the people of Nottingham and invite them to ask for the things they would like you to see on your television screen.

Contributors

Presenter:
Wilfred Pickles
Presenter:
Mabel Pickles
Orchestra directed by:
Eric Robinson
Special investigator:
Pauline Forrester
Special investigator:
Larry Forrester
Producer:
Harry Carlisle

by Charles Dickens
Adapted in thirteen weekly instalments by Vincent Tilsley

In which David begins a legal career "in a lazy nook near St. Paul's Churchyard" where he meets a young lady and falls into captivity. And in which his "Good Angel" questions the choice of his "Guiding Star."

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Adapted by:
Vincent Tilsley
Director:
Stuart Burge
Designer:
Stephen Bundy
Producer:
Douglas Allen
Miss Betsey Trotwood:
Sonia Dresdel
David Copperfield:
Robert Hardy
Richard Babley ('Mr. Dick'):
Richard Goolden
Mr. Francis Spenlow:
Andre van Gyseghem
Mr. Jorkins:
Geoffrey Tyrrell
Mrs. Crupp:
Vi Stevens
Thomas Traddles:
Bernard Cribbins
Mr. Gulpidge:
Graham Crowden
Mr. Wilkins Micawber:
Hilton Edwards
Mrs. Emma Micawber:
Olga Lindo
James Steerforth:
Anthony Tancred
Agnes Wickfield:
Mary Watson
Miss Lavinia Spenlow:
Joan Hickson
Miss Clarissa Spenlow:
Nora Nicholson
Miss Dora Spenlow:
Sheila Shand Gibbs

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