The Man Who Stroked Cats
Synopsis
From the short story by Morley Roberts
Adapted and produced by Antony Pelissier
[Starring] Tony Britton
It has been said that the world is divided into two main classes of people - those who love cats, and those who don't. Among those who do is Tom, a young man who can't resist giving a friendly word and a quick stroke to every stray he meets on his way to work - with results that even the most superstitious of black-cat lovers couldn't possibly have foreseen...
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(Tony Britton appears by permission of British Lion Films, Ltd.; Josephine Griffin by permission of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd.)
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This site contains the BBC listings information which the BBC printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. You can search the site for BBC programmes, people, dates and Radio Times editions.
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