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Ben Travers Farces

1970
1 season
7 episodes
Comedy

Ben Travers' Farces is a British comedy television series which originally aired on BBC 1. It ran for a single series of seven episodes between 19 September and 31 October 1970. Each was a stand-alone adaptation of a farce by Ben Travers. The first six episodes were adaptations of Aldwych Farces beginning with Rookery Nook while the seventh She Follows Me About was based on his wartime play of the same title.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Rookery Nook

    19-09-197060m

    A young woman, dressed in pyjamas, seeks refuge from her bullying stepfather at a country house in the middle of the night.

  • Ep 2

    2.A Cuckoo in the Nest

    26-09-197060m

    A man and a woman, who are each married to other people. While travelling together, they are obliged by circumstances to share a hotel bedroom. Everyone else assumes the worst, but...

  • Ep 3

    3.Turkey Time

    03-10-197060m

    Set at Christmas, it centers around a Christmas holiday at the Stoatt household where two guests become entangled with a stranded performer

  • Ep 4

    4.A Cup of Kindness

    10-10-197060m

    The son and daughter of two feuding families announce their upcoming marriage, to widespread uproar.

  • Ep 5

    5.Plunder

    17-10-197060m

    Two friends commit a jewel robbery, for arguably honourable reasons, with fatal results.

  • Ep 6

    6.Dirty Work

    24-10-197060m

    The maladroit but ultimately successful efforts of a shop-walker to outwit a gang of jewel thieves.

  • Ep 7

    7.She Follows Me About

    31-10-197060m

    A harassed vicar has to cope with some mischievous girls and a bishop who is not all he seems.

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