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When it's time to wet the baby's head, it's surprising the secrets that emerge... © Radio Times 1970

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Credits

Duration: 74'31". Archive: No holdings at the BBC Archive at Windmill Road.

Written by Douglas Livingstone. Directed by Alan Clarke.
Produced by Irene Shubik.
Designer: Derek Dodd, Production Assistant: Clive Horsbrugh, Assistant Floor Manager: Jean Esslemont, Assistant: Rosalind Pool, Costumes: Marjorie Lewis, Make-up: Penny Norton, Floor Assistant: James Piner, Lighting: John Treays, T.M.2: Ron Koplick, Sound: Derek Miller-Timmins, Crew: 12, Senior Cameraman: Bob Baxter, Vision Mixer: Chris Griffin, Video Tape Editor: Peter Francis.

Cast: Nigel Stock (Arthur Palmer), George A. Cooper (Frank Palmer), Avril Elgar (Christine Reynolds), Jo Rowbottom (Valerie Palmer), Daphne Slater (Mary Palmer), Frank Gatliff (Phillips), Ronald Clarke (Johnny Fox), Michael Graham Cox (David Pond), John Scott Martin (Landlord), Patsy Smart (Woman in Bar), Matthew Clarke (Janicee), Elaine Donnelly (Louise), Malcolm McFee (Peter Palmer), Elaine Mitchell (Susan), Harold Goodwin (Dennis), Bert Palmer (Mr Jones), Colin Cunningham (Man in Bar), Penny Dixon (Waitress), Alan Lawrence (Salvationist), Harry Davis (Ben), Eric Lindsay (Barman), Fred Hugh (Barman), Eddie Connor (Barman), Reggie Cross (Organist).

Other parts/Extras: John Beardmore, Anthony Lang, Anthony Mayre, Jimmy Mac, Harry Douglas, John Wilder, Rex Rashley, Charles Stewart, Charles Saynor, Francis Batsoni, Denis Hayward, Leslie Bryant, Mary Andow, Winifred MacLeod, Eileen Winterton, Constance Myers, Celia May, Rosemary Banks, Winifred Bayes, Eileen Matthews, Joan Morton, Anna Karina, Daphne Davy, Susanne Fleuret, Tracy Vernon, Ann Evans, Doris Littlewood, Pearl Walter, Iris Fry, Eve Lynn, Mary Rennie, Richard Blake, Maisie Merry, Mary Maxted, Gilly Flower, Stan Sanders, Debbie Green, Esme Johns, Maureen West, Rhoma Beseigh, Daphne Howgate, Janet Potter, Jo Hall, Dorothy Cookayne, Mary Irving, Constance Reason, Vi Kane, Bernard Whitehead

Production Information

Camera Script is marked as The Wednesday Play: I Can't See My Little Willie
Project Number: 2140/3501
Recording Number: VTC/6HT/58867/ED (from PasB), VTC/6HT/58867A, B & C (from camera script)
Recording Studio: n/a
Recording Rehearsals: 02:00pm - 10:00pm, 8 May 1970, 12:00pm - 06:00pm, 9 May 1970, 01:00pm - 06:00pm 10 May 1970
Recording: 11:00am - 12:00pm & 07:30pm - 10:pm 9 May 1970, 07:30pm - 10:00pm 10 May 1970
Transmitted: 09:21:34pm - 10:35:55pm 19 November 1970

Film sequences:

• 13' sound 16mm (Play for Today titles)

• 249' sound 16mm (sequences)

• 28' sound 16mm (animations)

Music used:

• Ronald Clarke, Reggie Cross and 'pub customers' singing two sequences of I Can't See My Little Willie (by Douglas Livingstone) (01'58" and 01'20") and Henderson-Dixon's Bye-Bye Blackbird (01'32")

• Nigel Stock, Reggie Cross and 'customers' singing Harris Weston and Bert Lee's Knees Up Mother Brown (00'41")

• Patsy Smart, Reggie Cross and 'customers' singing Desmond O'Connor's Roll Me Over (02'26")

• Colin Cunningham and Reggie Cross singing Taylor, Brahe and de Sylva's Bless This House (02'06") and Brown, Henderson and Johnson's Sonny Boy (00'50")

• Ronnie Clarke, Nigel Stock, Reggie Cross and 'customers' singing Old MacDonald Had a Farm (00'50")

• Ronald Clarke, Reggie Cross and 'customers' singing Gay and Butlers' Run Rabbit Run (01'05")

• Reggie Cross singing Burke's Daddy's Little Girl (02'00")

• Bigel Stock singing Douglas Livingstone's I'm a Man of Streatham (00'10")

• Eric Lindsay, Fred Hugh and Eddie Connor singing Danny Boy (00'22")

• The Margate Salvation Army Band playing There's a Friend for Little Children (00'27"), Oh God Our Help in Ages Past (01'18")

• Robert Parvin singing All Things Bright and Beautiful (01'10")

• Frank Gatliff, Avril Elgar and 'customers' singing Dillon and Lauder's The End of the Road (00'15")

• An ad hoc orchestra conducted by Jo Horovitz playing the Play for Today Theme (00'13")

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