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Ray Galton

RAY GALTON

  (1930 - )
Nationality:    English
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Ray Galton's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Ray Galton's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bowmans, The         Hancock's Half Hour         Impasse         Offer, The         Reunion, The         Steptoe And Son In Murder At Oil Drum Lane         Telephone Call, The         When Did You Last See Your Trousers ?         Wind In the Sassafras Trees

Bowmans, The

Synopsis:
a knockabout paradoy of the archers, it features Will Barton as the lad himself, who discovers that his role as the village idiot is about to meet a sticky end in a threshing machine. Originally written for Tony hancock

Notes:
written by Ray Galton And Alan Simpson

1st Produced:
-    1961

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
teleplay One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Hancock's Half Hour

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written with Alan Simpson

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Woburn Books, 1975   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
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Impasse

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written with Alan Simpson

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
e.J.arnold, 1966   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Offer, The

Synopsis:
the first ever episode of TV sitcom Steptoe and Son

Notes:
written by Ray Galton And Alan Simpson

1st Produced:
Lass O'Gowrie in Manchester    05 Dec 2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
teleplay

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Reunion, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written with Alan Simpson

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
e.J.arnold, 1966   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  -            Other:  extras

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Steptoe And Son In Murder At Oil Drum Lane

Synopsis:
Harold Steptoe returns, after a 30 year absence, to his rag and bone home, now a National Trust property only to be confronted by the ghost of the Father he is supposed to have murdered.

Notes:
written by Ray Galton And John Antrobus

1st Produced:
York, Theatre Royal    2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Telephone Call, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written with Alan Simpson

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
e.J.arnold, 1966   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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When Did You Last See Your Trousers ?

Synopsis:
a burglar steals some clothes whilst couple are sleeping, man decides to pursue but has no trousers

Notes:
written with John Antrobus

1st Produced:
Mold, Clwyd    1986

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1988   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Farce

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Wind In the Sassafras Trees

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with Alan Simpson

1st Produced:
Coventry    1968

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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