About this programme
1/10. Truly spots a bottle with a message inside floating down the river, and decides to catch it - so enlists the help of Clegg, Billy and Alvin to follow its elusive course and eventually read the mysterious contents. Long-running comedy, starring Frank Thornton, Peter Sallis, Keith Clifford and Brian Murphy.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Truly
- Frank Thornton
- Norman Clegg
- Peter Sallis
- Billy
- Keith Clifford
- Alvin
- Brian Murphy
- Nora Batty
- Kathy Staff
- Cousin Aubrey
- Col Farrell
- 1st PC
- Ken Kitson
- 2nd PC
- Louis Emerick
- Entwistle
- Burt Kwouk
- Howard
- Robert Fyfe
- Pearl
- Juliette Kaplan
- Auntie Wainwright
- Jean Alexander
- Smiler
- Stephen Lewis
- Barry
- Mike Grady
- Glenda
- Sarah Thomas
- Ivy
- Jane Freeman
- Nelly
- June Whitfield
- Miss Davenport
- Josephine Tewson
- Marina
- Jean Fergusson
Crew
- Director
- Alan JW Bell
- Producer
- Alan JW Bell
- Writer
- Roy Clarke
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