Original title
Ben Travers Farces
Released
9/19/1970
Origin country
GB
Genre
Comedy
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
7
Ben Travers' Farces is a British comedy television series which originally aired on BBC 1. It ran for a single series of seven episodes between 19 September and 31 October 1970. Each was a stand-alone adaptation of a farce by Ben Travers. The first six episodes were adaptations of Aldwych Farces beginning with Rookery Nook while the seventh She Follows Me About was based on his wartime play of the same title.
A young woman, dressed in pyjamas, seeks refuge from her bullying stepfather at a country house in the middle of the night.
A man and a woman, who are each married to other people. While travelling together, they are obliged by circumstances to share a hotel bedroom. Everyone else assumes the worst, but the two travellers are able to prove their innocence.
Set at Christmas, it centers around a Christmas holiday at the Stoatt household where two guests become entangled with a stranded performer
The son and daughter of two feuding families announce their upcoming marriage, to widespread uproar.
Two friends commit a jewel robbery, for arguably honourable reasons, with fatal results.
The maladroit but ultimately successful efforts of a shop-walker to outwit a gang of jewel thieves.
A harassed vicar has to cope with some mischievous girls and a bishop who is not all he seems.
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