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First broadcast: on BBC Two England

A series of ten programmes
The master comedian from the golden age of silent comedy in excerpts from films that thrilled and entertained a generation.
Harold gets scalded in Hot Water when he takes his bride and in-laws for a ride in his new pride and joy - a Butterfly 6 automobile. He proves a little better at claiming the West in an excerpt from his spoof Eastern Westerner.
Written by PETER DURSTON
Produced by BOB HOAG

Contributors

Written By:
Peter Durston
Produced By:
Bob Hoag

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

The master comedian from the golden age of silent comedy in excerpts from the films that thrilled and entertained a generation. Harold wins a live turkey whilst shopping and faces the problem of getting it home on a crowded streetcar in Hot Water. Then, dodging a persistent land-lady, in Bumping into Broadway, he is hilariously chased by cops raiding a gambling-joint.

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Comedian:
Harold Lloyd
Writer:
Peter Durston
Producer:
Bob Hoag

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

The master comedian from the golden age of silent comedy in excerpts from the films that thrilled and entertained a generation.
The dare-devil and hair-raising climb up the side of a high building in Safety Last is perhaps Harold Lloyd 's most celebrated stunt. There is also a calamity-bound venture behind the scenes of movie-making in Hey There.
Written for television by PETER DURSTON Directed by BOB HOAG

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Unknown:
Harold Lloyd
Television By:
Peter Durston
Directed By:
Bob Hoag

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

The master comedian from the golden age of silent comedy in excerpts from the films that thrilled and entertained a generation.
Harold falls apart at the seams m The Freshman and as a lovelorn suitor in Haunted Spooks he manages to bungle his own suicide,
Written by PETER DURSTON Produced by BOB HOAG

Contributors

Written By:
Peter Durston
Produced By:
Bob Hoag

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

The master comedian from the golden age of silent comedy in excerpts from the films that thrilled and entertained a generation. A down-and-out Harold is living From Hand to Mouth until he meets and rescues little Miss Rich Girl ; then, as the work-shy youngest son in The Kid Brother, he attempts to avoid his brothers' efforts at retribution.
Written by PETER DURSTON
Produced by BOB HOAG.

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Unknown:
Rich Girl
Written By:
Peter Durston
Produced By:
Bob Hoag.

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

The master comedian from the golden age of silent comedy in excerpts from the films that thrilled and entertained a generation.
Harold monkeys around chasing stolen booty in The Kid Brother and finds himself on the run in Take a Chance after an escaped jailbird switches clothes.
Written by PETER DURSTON Produced by BOB HOAG

Contributors

Written By:
Peter Durston
Produced By:
Bob Hoag

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

The master comedian from the golden age of silent comedy in excerpts from the films that thrilled and entertained a generation. Fall-guy Harold joins the college football team in The Freshman; and he's out on a limb in a heart-stopping sequence from Never Weaken.
Produced by BOB HOAG.

Contributors

Produced By:
Bob Hoag.

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

The master comedian from the golden age of silent comedy in excerpts from his films. Harold heads for his garage and his handsome new Model T, but has problems getting going in Get Out and Get Under, then appears to defy the laws of gravity when he finally gets started; an unforeseen laundry-van ride in Safety Last means Harold needs a fast lift to work or faces the sack.

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

Harold keeps bouncing back when he wants to marry an unpleasant businessman's daughter in Ask Father; and dreams he's aboard a female pirate ship in Captain Kid's Kids.
Television version written by PETER DURSTON
Produced by BOB HOAG

Contributors

Written By:
Peter Durston
Produced By:
Bob Hoag

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

A triple bill of classic comedies

Swiss Miss
Starring Laurel and Hardy
with Delia Lind, Walter Woolf King, Eric Blore
The best-laid schemes of mousetrap salesmen Stan and Ollie go awry once too often, and they become galley-slaves at an alpine holiday hotel straight out of a musical comedy where Laurel helps Hardy to lose his heart to the heroine.
Produced by Hal Roach
Directed by John G. Blystone

at 2.15
Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Starring W.C. Fields
with Pauline Lord, Zasu Pitts, Kent Taylor
The joys, hopes and sorrows of Mrs Wiggs and her five children who struggle for existence in their patchwork shack on the wrong side of the railway tracks.
Screenplay by WILLIAM SLAVENS MCNUTT and JANE STORM from the play by ALICE HEGAN RICE and ANNE CRAWFORD Produced by DOUGLAS MACLEAN Directed by NORMAN TAUROG

at 3.30
Professor Beware
Starring Harold Lloyd
with Phyllis Welch, Raymond Walburn, William Frawley
Egyptologist Professor Dean Lambert is the proud possessor of nine ancient tablets narrating the tragic story of two Egyptian lovers. The final tablet has been broken and Lambert's greatest ambition is to learn its contents.
Screenplay DELMER DAVES. JACK CUNNINGHAM based on a story by CRAMPTON HARRIS , FRANCIS M. and MARION B. COCKRELL Produced bv HAROLD LLOYD Directed by ELLIOTT NUGENT
. Films: page 19

Contributors

Unknown:
Delia Lind
Unknown:
Walter Woolf King
Unknown:
Eric Blore
Produced By:
Hal Roach
Directed By:
John G. Blystone
Unknown:
Pauline Lord
Unknown:
Zasu Pitts
Unknown:
Kent Taylor
Unknown:
Mrs Wiggs
Unknown:
William Slavens McNutt
Play By:
Alice Hegan Rice
Produced By:
Douglas MacLean
Directed By:
Norman Taurog
Unknown:
Harold Lloyd
Unknown:
Phyllis Welch
Unknown:
Raymond Walburn
Unknown:
William Frawley
Unknown:
Delmer Daves.
Story By:
Crampton Harris
Story By:
Marion B. Cockrell
Unknown:
Harold Lloyd
Directed By:
Elliott Nugent
Mr Stubbins:
W C Fields
Mrs Wiggs:
Pauline Lord
Miss Hazy:
Zasu Pitts
Bob Redding:
Kent Taylor
Lucy:
Evelyn Venable
Billie:
Jimmy Butler
Mr WiggS:
Donald Meek
Professor Lambert:
Harold Lloyd
Jane Van Buren:
Phyllis Welch
Judge James:
Raymond Walburn
Jerry:
Lionel Stander
Snoop Donlan:
William Frawley

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

The master comedian from the golden age of silent comedy in excerpts from the films that thrilled and entertained a generation.
The lines are permanently engaged for Harold in Number Please as he and a rival vie for the attentions of the same girl; there are also hold-ups when he chases a bus conductress in Off the Trolley
TV version written by PETER DURSTON
Produced by BOB HOAG

Contributors

Written By:
Peter Durston
Produced By:
Bob Hoag

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

A none-too-sober Harold in another of his staggering performances: this time rescuing a sleep-walking girlfriend in High and Dizzy; while in The Flirt he tries his hand as a waiter when he fancies a pretty restaurant cashier.
TV version written by PETER DURSTON Produced by BOB HOAG

Contributors

Written By:
Peter Durston
Produced By:
Bob Hoag

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

Excerpts from films that thrilled and entertained a generation.
Late for his own wedding, Harold tries to get his boozy friends to the ceremony in For Heaven's Sake; then, as a super-slick cowboy he outshoots all gunslingers in Billy Blazes , Esq.
Television version written by PETER DURSTON
Produced by BOB HOAG

Contributors

Unknown:
Billy Blazes
Written By:
Peter Durston
Produced By:
Bob Hoag

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

The master comedian from the golden age of silent comedy in excerpts from the films that thrilled and entertained a generation.
Hubble-bubble trouble for sailor Harold as he pursues his girl-friend on the double into a sultan's harem in A Sailor-Made Man; whilst in Spring Fever he proves the path of true love is always stony.
TV version written by PETER DURSTON Producer BOB HOAG

Contributors

Written By:
Peter Durston
Producer:
Bob Hoag

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

It's all and any means of transport for Harold as he frantically tries to stop a bigamous marriage in Girl Shy; then, as a wealthy but effete young man-about-town he can't stop crashing about in For Heaven's Sake.

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

Cavorting by the sea, Harold pinches an old flame from a rival in Why Pick on Me?; in His Royal Slyness he gets more than he bargained for exchanging identities with a princely double.
Television version written by PETER DURSTON
Produced by BOB HOAG

Contributors

Written By:
Peter Durston
Produced By:
Bob Hoag

First broadcast: on BBC Two England

Doctor Harold 's unorthodox medical treatment of a healthy but wealthy beauty exposes a quack medic in Dr Jack; and in Never Touched Me he has to contend with some ferocious admirers of his flirtatious girlfriend.

Contributors

Unknown:
Doctor Harold