1955, broadcast on the BBC Home Service, with D. A. Clarke-Smith as Uncle Fred, Derek Hart as Pongo, Brian Haines as Wilberforce Robinson, Alison Leggatt as Connie Parker, T. St. John Barry as Claude Parker, Joan Harrison as Julia Parker, and Edward Jewesbury as Mr Roddis. Clarke-Smith had voiced Mr Roddis in the 1939 radio adaptation. The BBC adapted the story for television as part of the television series Comedy Playhouse. Adapted and produced by Michael Mills, it starred Wilfrid Hyde-White as Uncle Fred and Jonathan Cecil as Pongo. The 25-minute show was first broadcast on 16 June 1967. The cast included Avis Bunnage as Connie Parker, George Pensotti as Wilberforce Robinson, Gordon Rollings as Claude Parker, Janina Faye as Julia Parker, and Ballard Berkeley as Mr Roddie. It was adapted in the first part of the six-part 1994 BBC radio adaptation of Uncle Dynamite. The cast included Richard Briers as Uncle Fred, Hugh Grant as Pongo, Paul Eddington as the narrator, Jacqueline Tong as Connie, John Evitts as Claude, Felicity Montagu as Julia, and David Howarth as Wilberforce. Actor John Lithgow performs this story, along with Ring Lardner's short story "Haircut", in his one-man play titled Stories by Heart (Broadway, 2018). See also A list of stories featuring Uncle Fred and Pongo References Notes Bibliography External links Details of the BBC adaptation from the BBC Comedy guide Short stories by P. G. Wodehouse 1935 short stories Works originally published in Redbook