“The Walrus and the Carpenter”

Alasdair Lawrance

Hugh Griffith and Felix Aylmer were in  “The Walrus and the Carpenter”.  I remember this from my days on Crew 7 with Mike Bond (I think), but there was apparently a bit of conflict between Marty Feldman and Barry Took, the writers, and Tom Sloan, then Head of Comedy.  It wasn’t re-commissioned, but laid the foundations for ‘Last of the Summer Wine’. 

Sadly “The Walrus and the Carpenter” was destroyed, so there’s no record it ever existed.

Alec Bray

I remember watching it.  The last scene of one episode (possibly the last) was (if I recall correctly) a high angle zoom out to wide shot of the actors standing next to a public convenience.

See IMdb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0341995/

“The Siegfried Idyll”

Spencer Chapman

In 1969 I was production designer on “The Siegfried Idyll”, which we filmed in Switzerland and Germany, and also on the stage at Ealing.

Written and Directed by:   Anthony Wilkinson
Photography:   Ken Westbury
Edited by:   Roger Crittenden
Sound:   John Murphy

With Alan Badel as Wagner

At this time I wonder if it happened at all!

Bill Jenkin

It  appears on BBC Genome as having been transmitted on BBC2 at 21:05 on Sunday 20th April 1969.  Spencer Chapman is listed in the RT credits: see this link: http://bit.ly/1WJOo2a .

I have also found a still from the production (see below) .

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It is also listed on the BFI website http://bit.ly/1SVeTvp so it did happen and as it was filmed rather than taped it probably still exists somewhere.

David Brunt

It still survives in the BBC archive on the original 16mm Colour film.