bhowells

Anyone remember the Brian Rix farces being televised on BBC tv in the sixties usually on bank holidays if memory serves me right.

winsfordtown

I remember a stage production of 'Reluctant Heroes' broadcast on television but I'm not sure it was BBC.

Fellwanderer

I remember seeing one of the farces live in London and more than one on television. No memory as to whether it was BBC or ITV.

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Geoffers

Yes, they were a staple part of BBC broadcasting in the early to mid-sixties. I think they were billed as The Whitehall Farces or similar.

Brian Rix, Elspet Gray, Leo Franklyn and Larry Noble are some of the names I recall.

hatpeg

Was it called "Laughter from Whitehall?"

I think I remember In the Soup, and Cuckoo in the nest, - but mainly Brian Rix with his trousers around his ankles!

bhowells

I remember Dry Rot being shown. The abiding memory I have of these televised Rix farces as as achild was the frequent appearances of Leo Franklin.

Harleybloke

I loved 'em as a kid and thought Rixy was really naughty!

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

wadsy

Also Elspet Gray. Great fun!

clarence

Yes, I remember the Brian Rix Farces, were they actually filmed with an audience at the Whitehall Theatre? I seem to remember that there was a live audience.
Two particular things I remember - in one play there was a character calles "creases Croker" who was so pleased with the creases of his trousers that he refused to sit down and in another I first head the following joke: Somewhat prissy young man - "Walk this way." Second character (old man) "If I walked that way I'd be arrested". At the time, as a young teenager, I hadn't the faintest idea what that meant.

Innocent but happy days.

Clarence