By Edward Taylor and John Graham Directed by Thomas Brown Season: 19 - 29 November 1986 The Prime Minister and Chancellor are preparing a puritanical budget taxing amusements such as bingo, gambling and night-clubs out of existence. On the afternoon before its presentation, however, each in turn appears to be the father of the pretty Shirley, the result of a post-party conference night many years ago. In an even less expected family bombshell, it transpires that the Prime Minister's deferential Parliamentary Private Secretary, Campbell, is, in fact, his son ... Cast: The Rt Hon George Venables MP - Patrick Paynter Rodney Campbell - Michael Brown The Rt Hon Hector Cramond MP - Patrick Dowman Miss Frobisher - Caroline Hasselman Sybil Venables - Lynn Williams Shirley Springer - Sonja Williams Jane Rotherbrook - Samantha Matheson Dora Springer - Dorothy Hart-Brown A Man - John Boyce |