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Count Your Blessings

30/5/1963

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By Ronald Jeans
Directed by Alex Henderson

Season: 30 May - 1 June 1963

To the young married couple, Gay and Pelham, life is a perpetual financial crisis, and to augment their income they decide to take in paying guests. But with one exception the guests turn out to be more impoverished, and with the rents mounting in arrears the situation is far from improved. Under an aunt's will Gay is to receive the interest on a small sum of money, but cannot touch the capital unless she is widowed or divorced. It will obviously take several years to pay their debts out of the interest and, as widowhood for Gay is not attractive to either of them, they decide that a nice friendly divorce is the only thing to keep them solvent - with re-marriage after a decent interval. Quarrels are organised in front of their friends, and Gay takes great pains to select a suitably safe corespondent for her husband from among the paying guests. Unfortunately Pelham is found in the embrace of a particularly glamorous blonde, instead of the dim dancing mistress who was chosen, and for a time it seems as though the divorce will be genuine and permanent. 

Cast:
Mrs Withers - Renee Hart
Marion Butterworth - Marily Eales
Gay Butterworth - Joan Larsen
Pelham Butterworth - Robert Kerr
​Theodore Malek - Les Griffen
Thelma Cressingdon - Muriel Biss
Hubert Batt - Brian Brodie
Mrs Compton - Chris Joyce
Juliet Frost - Helen Kavanagh
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