For 4 Tonight
Louise Gold featured as Maureen Bedford, one of the team of four, in
an episode (actually Episode 2) first broadcast on London Weekend Television
between 23:00 to 23:30 on 8 October 1983 (note, it must have been recorded several
months earlier in the year, prior to the 21 July)
Cast
George
Irving - as Tony Royale (The TV Chat Show Host)
Rachel
Bell - as Avril
Petrie
The Team Of
Four Guests
Yvonne Edgell
Jo Warne
Louise Gold
- as Maureen Bedford
Norman Chappell
The Band
Don Harper
Sam Harding
Stan Roderick
Ronnie Verrell
Uncredited
in the TV Times (and BFI Database)
David Claridge
Production Team
Written by -
Ruby Wax
Designer - Mike
Oxley
Director/Producer
- Michael Dolenz
Produced by
-
Michael Dolenz is also often credited as
Mickey Dolenz
It is worth that as a singing-puppeteer Louise Gold
has certainly performed to the work of some of the members of The Band, since
some of them had previously been the actual musicians providing the music for ‘Electric
Mayhem’ and co on The Muppet Show.
Notably: drummer Ronnie Verrall provided the real drum notes for Animal.
Although puppeteer David Claridge does not
appear to have received a credit in the TV Times for playing a
guest on the show, he must have been on this edition of the show because in an
interview, fellow British puppeteering legend Louise Gold recollected
him being on it, and asking her if she would be interested in working with him,
and she subsequently puppeteered on his big BBC show Roland
Rat The Series. Both of them went on to take part in the television
documentary The Wonderful World Of
Puppets.
Rachel Bell may have gone
on to appear in Dear Ralph.
Critics Comments
Links about For 4
Tonight
BBC Comedy Guide page about For 4 Tonight:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/f/for4tonight_1299001175.shtml
TV Tome page about For 4 Tonight: http://www.tv.com/for-4-tonight/show/18819/summary.html
Tibby’s Bowl / Muppet Central Interview with Louise
Gold (where she specifically mentions David Claridge being on For 4
Tonight): http://www.muppetcentral.com/articles/interviews/gold.shtml
BFI Database’s
Entry for the programme: http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/211744
Channel Four at 20 Years page for 1983: http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/features/c4/1983.htm
Normal Chappell’s television biography (on a site for
The Avengers): http://theavengers.tv/forever/pnote-chappell.htm
TV Dynasty page for the show: http://www.tvdynasty.com/showlist.php?s=6811
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