Clochemerle
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 1972
- 9 episodes (1 series)
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's 9-part adaptation of the French comic novel about the erection of a public convenience in a small village, Clochemerle. Stars Cyril Cusack, Roy Dotrice, Wendy Hiller, Kenneth Griffith, Micheline Presle and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 7 - The Inexorable Power Of The Third Republic
Ascar de St Choul is dunked in soapy water.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 31st March 1972
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Micheline Presle | The Baroness Courtebiche |
| Peter Ustinov | Narrator |
| Hugh Griffith | Alexandre Bourdillat |
| Raymond Gerome | Archbishop Of Lyon |
| Dennis Price | Alexis Luvelat |
| Nigel Green | Captain Tardivaux |
| Charles Lloyd Pack | Liochet |
| Maggy Maxwell | Madame Liochet |
| Tony Sutton | Madame Liochet's Gigolo |
| Hamilton Dyce | Colonel Touffe |
| Tom Kempinski | Lieutenant |
| Michael Gover | General D'Aridel |
| Peter Copley | General De Laflanel |
| Michael Darbyshire | Chief Secretary |
| John Cazabon | Private Secretary |
| John Bryans | 1st Secretary |
| Robert Sansom | 2nd Secretary |
| Vernon Dobtcheff | 3rd Secretary |
| James McManus | 4th Secretary |
| Ralph Watson | 5th Secretary |
| John Glyn-Jones | Couzinet |
| Frederick Peisley | Petitbois |
| Graham Tonbridge | Archbishop's Butler |
| Gabriel Chevalier | Writer |
| Ray Galton | Writer (Adapted By) |
| Alan Simpson | Writer (Adapted By) |
| Michael Mills | Producer |
| Geoffrey Botterill | Editor |
| Spencer Chapman | Production Designer |
| Alan Roper | Composer |