British Comedy Guide

The Gold Watch Club

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1968
  • 1 pilot

A Comedy Playhouse presentation about Edward Wilkins, whose vision of retirement turns out to be rather different than the reality. Stars Dennis Price, Avice Landone, Peter Bayliss, Derek Waring, Bob Todd and more.

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Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
1968
Channel
BBC 1
Episodes
1 Pilot
Creator
Max Kester
Stars
Dennis Price, Avice Landone, Peter Bayliss, Derek Waring, Bob Todd, Barbara Clift, Barbara Leake, Roger Avon and more
Writer
Richard Waring
Producer
Graeme Muir
Company

Edward Wilkins, after forty years of loyal service to his firm, has been secretly looking forward to a good lie-in, an afternoon at the cinema, and generally being pampered. In the event, his first day of retirement turns out rather differently...

Additional details

Part of

Comedy Playhouse

Production
Studio
Picture
Black and white

Website links

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Friday 28th June 1968 at 8:20pm on BBC One
Episode length
30 minutes

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