Frankie Howerd Archive Box 28

Includes:
- photocopied film treatment of ‘Vice at the Vicarage’ by Kenneth McLeish, based on an idea by Frankie Howerd and Kenneth McLeish;
- rehearsal script, with extensive pencilled re-writes and annotations, for the play ‘Master of None’ by Peter Thwaites and Charles Cowper;
- annotated rehearsal script for a radio version of ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ by William Shakespeare (BBC Third Programme, transmission date 1 April 1958);
- annotated rehearsal script (and second unmarked copy) for the play ‘The Fly and the Fox’ (based on ‘Volpone’) by Barry Took and Alick Morrison (1984);
- rehearsal script for ‘The Wakey Wakey Tavern’ (BBC TV, 18 April 1959);
- eight page monologue for ‘Frankie Howerd on the Harp’;
- television series outline for ‘St Howerd!’ by Edward James Olmos and Gwil Richards;
- ten page screenplay extensively annotated by Frankie Howerd, and photocopied duplicate, for ‘Napoleon and Josephine’ (possible a TV series, c.1987);
- story outline for Frankie Howerd, and covering letter, for ‘Not on my Nellie’ by John D Drummond (1953);
- annotated photocopied rehearsal script (lacking the first three pages), for ‘The Churchill Said to Me’ (BBC TV, transmitted posthumously 1993);
- first draft of scene one of the ‘Frankie Howerd New Roman Stage Play’ by Miles Tredinnick;
nine page annotated rehearsal script for a ‘Samson and Delilah’ sketch featuring Frankie Howerd and Cilla Black, for the television series ‘Cilla’ (BBC TV, transmitted 10 February 1973); and
- bundle of loose annotated typescript pages, including ‘Francis Howerd in Concert’ (TV), ‘Send in the Clowns’ sketch, Frankie Howerd in ‘Goldilocks’ (marked Slough) and ‘Legion’s Lost Patrol’.

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