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What the Butler Saw

1987-05-23 1hr 25m

White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, in which the head psychiatrist of a lunatic asylum, when trying to conceal the attempted molestation of his new secretary from his wife, only succeeds in making himself (and everyone else) look completely round the bend.

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White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, in which the head psychiatrist of a lunatic asylum, when trying to conceal the attempted molestation of his new secretary from his wife, only succeeds in making himself (and everyone else) look completely round the bend.

  • Released
    1987-05-23
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  • Runtime
    1hr 25m
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    Released
  • Language
    English
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  • Production
    BBC

Crew

Barry Davis
Director
Joe Orton
Writer
Shaun Sutton
Producer
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Dinsdale Landen

Dinsdale Landen

Dr Prentice
Prunella Scales

Prunella Scales

Mrs Prentice
Tyler Butterworth

Tyler Butterworth

Nicholas Beckett
Tessa Peake-Jones

Tessa Peake-Jones

Geraldine Barclay
Bryan Pringle

Bryan Pringle

Sergeant Match

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