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TV series / 1964
HMS Paradise
A completely lost early ITV sitcom with strong similarities to the popular radio series The Navy Lark. HMS Paradise is set at a Royal Navy station on an island off the Dorset coast where very little actual work takes place.
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A completely lost early ITV sitcom with strong similarities to the popular radio series The Navy Lark. HMS Paradise is set at a Royal Navy station on an island off the Dorset coast where very little actual work takes place.
Cast
Frank ThorntonCommander Fairweather
Robin HunterLieutenant Pouter
Richard CaldicotCaptain Turvey
Ronald RaddCPO Banyard
Angus LennieAble Seaman Murdoch
Priscilla MorganAmanda
Graham CrowdenCommander Shaw
Ambrosine PhillpottsMrs. Turvey
Cameron HallAdmiral
Sheree WintonThird Wren · Fiona
Clive DunnTugboat Captain
Michael ArdenCPO Hawkins
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Howard LangCommander Bell
Arthur HewlettMr. Bassett
Ernest ClarkCommander Trickett
Archie DuncanCommander Bellamy
Edward BrooksLieutenant Gibson
Pat CoombsMrs. Wigg
June BarryDoris
Barbara BermelWren Wilkinson
Wendy RichardGenevieve
Barbara HicksFO Purseglove
Cerry NealFourth Wren
Martine BeswickFifth Wren
Janet BradburySixth Wren
Geoffrey HibbertMr. Busby
David HarfordRatling
John BluthalGus
Dickie OwenSid
Hedley ColsonDet. Insp. Hogg
George ToveyMilkman
Donald HewlettCommander Brent
Brian OultonSurgeon Lieutenant Tibby
Janet BruceAdmiral's Wife
Gertan KlauberNative Chief
Ray BrowneNaval Provost Lieutenant
Stanley UnwinProfessor
Robert DorningCharlesworth
Hugh LatimerPolegate
Eunice BlackMiss Franklin
Kenneth MidwoodAdmiral
Victor PlattCrabbe
Lionel WheelerRatling
Patrick TroughtonCaptain Ahab Rudlow
John RodenWilson
Jacqueline JonesWPO Bond
Brian RawlinsonA.B. Simkins
Barry HendersonAB Henderson
Joe RitchieAB Fletcher
Cardew RobinsonCousin Albert
Frank SetonRatling
Alister WilliamsonMr. Higgins
Malcolm KnightMr. Todhunter
John WarnerMr. Turnbull
Paul BogdanRussian Admiral
James GoeiChinese Delegate
Edmund OteroCuban Delegate
Dean FrancisIndian Delegate
Andrew DownieLieutenant 'Superman' Hathaway
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