British Comedy Guide
What The Butler Saw
What The Butler Saw

What The Butler Saw

  • TV comedy drama
  • BBC Two
  • 1987
  • 1 episode

Bawdy comedy by Joe Orton, set in Dr Prentice's Home for the Disturbed. Also features Dinsdale Landen, Tessa Peake-Jones, Prunella Scales, Tyler Butterworth, Timothy West and Bryan Pringle

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Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
1987
Channel
BBC 2
Episodes
1
Stars
Dinsdale Landen, Tessa Peake-Jones, Prunella Scales, Tyler Butterworth, Timothy West and Bryan Pringle
Writer
Joe Orton
Director
Barry Davis
Producer
Shaun Sutton
Company

In Dr Prentice's Home for the Disturbed, it is a toss-up which are the crazier - patients or administrators. After a day of inspired lunacy, the administrators win by a short head...

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Studio
Picture
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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Sunday 24th May 1987 at 7:45pm on BBC Two
Episode length
85 minutes
All previous repeats
  • Wednesday 16th June 2010 at 10:30pm on BBC4

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