Burglar's Bargains
A gang of robbers attempt a robbery at Harrods
- Genre
- Comedy Drama
- Broadcast
- 1979
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 1
- Starring
- Peter Jones, Donald Hewlett, Lockwood West, Bernard Bresslaw, David Timson, John Pullen, Adrian Egan, Elizabeth Rider and others
- Writer
- Wally K Daly
- Director
- Martin Jenkins
Trouble abounds when two elderly members of a Prisoners' Aid Society decide to use their unique knowledge to pull off 'the robbery of the century' by looting upmarket department store Harrods. They rapidly find themselves involved with rival gangs, the Mafia and nude shop assistants.
This is the first of Wally K Daly's trilogy of criminal gang capers produced on radio in the style of old British comedy films, along with A Right Royal Rip-Off and The Bigger They Are.
- Production company
- Also known as
- Saturday-Night Theatre: Burglar's Bargains (Other official name)
- Wally K Daly Trilogy: Burglar's Bargains
- Laugh track
- None
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Saturday 15th December 1979 on BBC Radio 4 at 8:30pm
- Episode length
- 90 minutes
- Last repeat
- Sunday 28th June 2020 at 4:00am on Radio 4 Extra