Rookery Nook - starring Arthur Lowe, Richard Briers & Irene Handl (1970)

Rookery Nook

Screenplay by Ben Travers

Based on Rookery Nook (play)

Produced by Eric Fawcett

Starring

• Richard Briers
• Arthur Lowe

Distributed by BBC

Release date

• 19 September 1970

Country England

Language English

Rookery Nook is a 1970 British television production by the BBC.

Sources[edit]

The BBC's production was based on the play Rookery Nook, one of the Aldwych farces, by Ben Travers.^[1]

First showing[edit]

First transmitted by the BBC on 19 September 1970, it was made in colour on videotape, but survives only as a monochrome telerecording.^[2]

Revival[edit]

The BBC's film was revived in 1994 by the National Film Theatre, the UK's leading revival house.^[3]

Cast[edit]

• Richard Briers ... Gerald Popkiss
• Arthur Lowe ... Harold Twine
• Joan Cooper ... Gertrude Twine
• Irene Handl ... Mrs. Leverett
• Elizabeth Knight ... Rhoda Marley
• Moray Watson ... Clive Popkiss
• Francis de Wolff ... Putz
• Geoffrey Lumsden ... Admiral Juddy
• Mary Millar ... Poppy Dickie
• Jenny McCracken ... Clara Popkiss
• Kathleen Saintsbury ... Mrs. Possett^[4]