Two Pipe Problems by Michael Chaplin.

[Riklaa]

The Afternoon Play BBC Radio 4 Monday 27 April 2009 Two Pipe Problems (Part 01) Michael Chaplin's drama returns to The Old Beeches retirement home for elderly thespians and the company of William and Sandy, two actors who still nurse a certain affectionate animosity towards one another since they starred as Holmes and Watson in a 1960s TV series. The pair become embroiled in making sure that the course of true love does run smooth. It begins with a proposal of marriage, but they are once again pressed into service to solve a mystery. Just why does the bridegroom suddenly call the wedding off? Sandy Boyle ...... Stanley Baxter William Parnes ...... Richard Briers Dolores Sweet ...... Julia McKenzie Sir Trelawney Hope ...... John Rowe Godfrey ...... Joseph Mydell Mary Winter ...... Jillie Meers Isadora Klein ...... Susan Wooldridge Hugo ...... Stephen Critchlow Directed by Marilyn Imrie A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. The Afternoon Play BBC Radio 4 Tuesday 28 April 2009 Two Pipe Problems (Part 02) Michael Chaplin's drama returns to The Old Beeches retirement home for elderly thespians and the company of William and Sandy, two actors who still nurse a certain affectionate animosity towards one another since they starred as Holmes and Watson in a 1960s TV series. Sandy appears in the Honours List, but a trip to Buckingham Palace to collect his award provides another mystery for the veteran sleuths to solve. Sandy Boyle ...... Stanley Baxter William Parnes ...... Richard Briers Karen ...... Tracy Wiles Postman ...... David Shaw-Parker Charles, Equerry to HRH ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt Doctor Mortimer ...... Geoffrey Whitehead Marvin ...... Stephen Critchlow Elsie ...... Linda Broughton Directed by Marilyn Imrie A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. Two Pipe Problem 2010 1 Right Old Charlie Written by Michael Chaplin. We revisit The Old Beeches retirement home for members of the theatrical profession and discover that new odd job man Geordie is making care assistant Karen's heart beat faster, but is he hiding something from her? Ageing, once-famous stand up comic Charlie Fisher regales the inmates with a few too many very old gags, but when his joke book and a large sum of money go missing, resident sleuths Sandy and William have a few tough questions to ask of the inmates, the new odd job man, and Charlie himself. The story is spiced up delightfully with some really vintage gags in a classic stand up routine from Radio 4's much loved comedian Barry Cryer, joining Richard Briers, Stanley Baxter, Edna Dore and all the regular inmates in a new set of two pipe problems. Cast William Parnes ..... Richard Briers Sandy Boyle ..... Stanley Baxter Charlie Fisher ..... Barry Cryer Karen ..... Teresa Gallagher Hatty Doran ..... Edna Dore Mary Winter (Matron) ..... Jillie Meers Edgar ..... David Shaw-Parker Geordie ..... Joe Caffrey Director: Marilyn Imrie A Catherine Bailey Production for BBC Radio 4. Two Pipe Problem 2010 2 The Memory Man Forgets Written by Michael Chaplin. Billy Small (played by David Holt) is a rare talent; one of the few surviving "Memory Men" Music Hall variety acts who had total recall of a huge range of entertaining facts. Billy is 85, and after a trip home to his native Yorkshire, he returns to The Old Beeches totally devoid of any memory of who he is or of any of the amazing facts he used to be so proud to display. Our resident sleuths William and Sandy fancy a mini break away from the Home, and take Billy back to Little Fell, the old mining town where he grew up. There they meet his daughter and his granddaughter, but discover that Billy not only alienated the whole mining community during the last miners' strike by supporting his pitman son in returning to work, but appears now to have lost the love and support of his daughter. Can William and Sandy solve the problem? Cast William Parnes ..... Richard Briers Sandy Boyle ..... Stanley Baxter Billy Small ..... David Holt Karen/Shelley ..... Teresa Gallagher Railway Man/Harry ..... Geoffrey Whitehead Myra ..... Julia Ford Rose ..... Anne Reid Director: Marilyn Imrie A Catherine Bailey Production for BBC Radio 4. https://timespast.ning.com/group/thedefinitivesherlockholmes/forum/topics/two-pipe-problems-william-and

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Two Pipe Problems - 1 A Rose by Any Other Name

Comedy drama by Michael Chaplin, featuring mystery-solving retired
thespians William and Sandy.

Episode 1. A Rose by Any Other Name
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The Old Beeches, retirement home for thespians in the London suburb of Pinner, has seen a remarkable number of cases solved over the years by William Parnes (Richard Briers) and Sandy Boyle (Stanley Baxter).

For those new to the drama, Briers and Baxter play a couple of actors whose heyday was in the 1960s when they starred in a popular TV series as Holmes and Watson. In theory, they despise one another. In practice, they share more ties and bonds than they care to acknowledge. All of this gives rise to a pleasurable mix of acerbic wit, super sleuthing and a touch of pathos.

Barry Cryer, Geoffrey Palmer, Honor Blackman and the late, great Ken Campbell have all enjoyed starring roles in previous stories and this time the ageing hams-cum-detectives are working with the brilliant Anne Reid.

A baby is abandoned in the porch of the Old Beeches. Why leave it there, not at a church or a hospital, asks Sandy? The arrival has a profound effect upon William who, it turns out, was adopted. But the baby truly unsettles the usual machine-like efficiency of Mary (Jillie Meers), the kind-but-steely matron of the retirement home. While the residents enjoy a day of baby-sitting, it’s left to Sandy and William to find the girl’s mother. Hankies at the ready for the ending...
About this programme

Part one of two. William and Sandy are two actors who used to star together as Holmes and Watson in a 1960s entrenched ideas TV series, and now live in a retirement home. The ageing thespians discover a baby in the doorway to the Old Beeches, and the residents are horrified by the implications of the child's abandonment. Michael Chaplin's comedy, starring Stanley Baxter and Richard Briers.
Cast and crew
Cast

Sandy
    Stanley Baxter
William
    Richard Briers
Karen
    Tracy Wiles
Mary
    Jillie Meers

Crew

Producer
    Catherine Bailey
Writer
    Michael Chaplin

A Rose by Any Other Name LINK

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Two Pipe2: I Love a Lassie

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Sandy decides to travel to Greenock on Clydeside to collect his Freedom
of the City award. As he has no living relatives or close friends, he
invites William to accompany him on condition he behaves himself. Once
again
Stanley Baxter and Richard Briers play the two elderly detectives who
solve mysteries by stealth and intuition.

When Sandy and William arrive in the old shipbuilding town, they meet
the Provost's secretary Moira. It becomes clear that his hosts really
know virtually nothing about Sandy - in fact Moira asks to interview
him so she can write up the Provost's speech for the ceremony.

The following day, Sandy shows William around his birthplace. They
visit the tenement where he was born and meet a man he was at school
with. He isn't wholly friendly and, when they return to the hotel,
there is a message: "Do you know how much pain you left behind. Why?".
Sandy is anxious, especially when another message appears on the
morning of the ceremony: "Why, oh why? Now it's your turn to feel the
pain. You will suffer as others have suffered".

So the race is on to uncover who exactly is out to get Sandy and why.
The solution to the riddle is finally revealed at the Freedom of
Greenock ceremony, when the roots of everyone's resentment are
uncovered.

Director : Marilyn Imrie
A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.

Credits

Sandy Boyle.....Stanley Baxter
William Parnes.....Richard Briers
Provost.....John Sessions
Station Assistant.....John Sessions
Moira.....Gabriel Quigley
Janice.....Maureen Beattie
Macca.....Gordon Kennedy
Train Guard.....Gordon Kennedy

I Love a Lassie Link

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Really great stuff, thanks Riklaa!

[Riklaa]

I Love A Lassie NEW LINK 

A Rose By Any Other name NEW LINK

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