Comedy Playhouse, The Bishop Rides Again, 1966
We are looking at the famous sitcoms that started life as an episode of the BBC’s long running Comedy playhouse series.
The Bishop Rides Again kicked off series five of the long running series and a year later would go on to become the popular series All Gas and Gaitors that ran for 5 series on TV and 2 on radio.
The show was created and written by husband and wife team Edwin Apps and Pauline Devaney under the pseudonym John Wraith.
Like many TV shows of the time The Bishop Rides Again was missing from the archives thankfully it was recovered in 2001.
Summary
The Bishop needs to secure a substantial bequest, but in order to do so must re-enact a mediaeval custom of dispensing forty pairs of white socks to forty virgins. The task proves tough and becomes even harder when the search for forty virgins takes place!
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Cast
Robertson Hare – Henry, The Archdeacon
William Mervyn – The Rt. Rev. Dr. Cuthbert Hever, The Bishop
Derek Nimmo – The Rt. Rev. Mervyn Noote, The Chaplain
John Barron – Lionel Pugh Critchley – The Dean
Details
Channel: BBC1
Written By: John Wraith
Produced and Directed By: Stuart Allen
Originally Transmitted: 17th May 1966