Frankie Howerd Archive Box 13

Scope and Content

Includes:
- rehearsal script for ‘The Frankie Howerd Show’ by Galton & Simpson, marked episode 1 (BBC TV, 1964);
- scripts covering ten episodes of ‘The Frankie Howerd’ Show (BBC Radio, 1950s), heavily annotated by Frankie Howerd;
- three scripts (two lacking title pages and annotated) for ‘Fine Goings On’ (BBC Radio, 1958);
- two copies of a script for ‘The Frankie Howerd Show’ by Marty Feldman and Barry Took (ABC Television, c.1970), with a partial copy of another (Thames Television, 1970);
- two unmarked copies of an episode of ‘Frankie Howerd’ by David McKellar & David Nobbs (BBC Radio, c.1974);
- typescript for ‘The Frankie Howerd Show’ TV pilot;
- screenplay of ‘The Frankie Howerd Show’ by Miles Tredinnick (undated). It’s possible that this was for television and never actually made;
- three undated monologues (two annotated by Frankie Howerd) and sketch material (two by Eric Merriman, one by Johnny Speight and Dick Barry) for ‘The Frankie Howerd Show’;
- two copies of the typed play text (one annotated) for the stage play ‘Cinderella’ by John Morley, and eight page synopsis of the show;
- seven page typed concept for ‘Precinct 49’ by Bill Osco (1978);
- 21 page unidentified typescript, heavily annotated by Frankie Howerd, starring Peggy Mount and the Tremeloes (c.1960s);
- undated script for ‘It’s all Greek to Me’, series 6 episode 3 (likely to be an episode of the gameshow 3-2-1) by John Bartlett (1983); and
- eight page rehearsal script for ‘The Ivor Emmanuel Show’ (Tyne Tees Television, 21 April 1961).

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