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Alan Melville takes you from A-Z through the world of entertainment and some of its more unusual aspects.
The programme based on the A.B.C. of Show Business by Wolf Mankowitz.

This week's letter 'C'
is represented by Alma Cogan and Petula Clark with hit songs of yesterday and today
Britain's famous violinist, Campoli
The language of the hands demonstrated by Chin Yu
A glimpse of Circus life with some of the clowns from The Bertram Mills Circus and on a flying visit from the film studios
Ian Carmichael
The music of Hoagy Carmichael

(Ian Carmichael appears by arrangement with Charter Films and the Rank Organisation; Alma Colgan is appearing in "Rocking the Town" at the London Palladium)

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Melville
Based on "The A.B.C. of Show Business" by:
Wolf Mankowitz
Singer:
Alma Cogan
Singer:
Petula Clark
Violinist:
null Campoli
Mime:
Chin Yu
Actor:
Ian Carmichael
Choreography:
Irving Davies
Orchestra directed by:
Eric Robinson
Research:
W. MacQueen-Pope
Research:
Peter Noble
Research:
Ken Smith
Producer:
Bryan Sears

by Charles Dickens
Adapted for television in thirteen weekly instalments by Vincent Tilsley

In which fortune smiles upon David and Dora who enjoy "an unsubstantial, happy, foolish time'; upon Uriah Heep, who goes up in the world; but not upon the folk at Yarmouth, who sustain two tragic losses.

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Adapted by:
Vincent Tilsley
Director:
Stuart Burge
Designer:
Stephen Bundy
Producer:
Douglas Allen
David Copperfield:
Robert Hardy
Mrs. Crupp:
Vi Stevens
Thomas Traddles:
Bernard Cribbins
Miss Dora Spenlow:
Sheila Shand Gibbs
Miss Clarissa Spenlow:
Nora Nicholson
Miss Lavinia Spenlow:
Joan Hickson
Housemaid:
Rosalie Westwater
Jip:
Champion Golden Days Penn Rose of St. Lucia
Agnes Wickfield:
Mary Watson
Uriah Heep:
Maxwell Shaw
Daniel Peggotty:
George Woodbridge
Ham Peggotty:
Andrew Downie
Clara Peggotty:
Edna Morris
Mrs. Gummidge:
Mabel Constanduros
Mr. Barkis:
Meadows White

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