CELEBRATING 70 YEARS! : TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED - GEORGY PORGY .. ANGLIA TELEVISION .. UK 1980 ..

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TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED

GEORGY PORGY 

( Season 2 - Episode 9 )

Starring

JOAN COLLINS as Clare Duckworth / Julia Roach 
JOHN ALDERTON as Rev George Duckworth 
LALLY BOWERS as Miss Elphinstone 
MARGARETTA SCOTT as Lady Birdwell 
ANN BEACH as Miss Unwin

GRANT BARDSLEY as George as a Child

JACOB WITKIN as Boris Duckworth

Directed by Graham Evans

Julia Roach has designs on the new Reverend, she soon finds out he does not practice what he preaches, when the sins of the father or mother, in his case, come back to haunt him...with Julia's life in danger when she encounters Georgy Porgy....

 Joan was asked to do a second episode of  "Tales" and she plays a dual role of a sexy parishioner and a batty mother who is very unconventional.. The episode ran into trouble with the Bishop of Norwich, due to a scene where the Reverend stars hallucinating and imagines his prim and proper congregation of ladies are all naked.. The scene was set to film in a church in Norwich, but the Bishop objected to a bevy of naked women littering the church... Eventually the scene was shot in a crypt and ultimately the scene was cut down as to avoid the tv censors.. It proved to be a storm in a D Cup!! This episode was of the strange variety, with Joan playing two parts and John Alderton a deeply disturbed vicar.. But it's an interesting story and Joan is as reliable as ever in the dual role of sexy Julia and the over maternal Claire..John Alderton turns up later in Joan's career when he appeared in her BBC series "Tonight At 8:30", while Lally Bowers previously appeared in "Fallen Angels"...

Joan's original script..

Script page Joan's chracter

Shooting Schedule

You can order the complete collection of episodes which includes 'Georgy Porgy' on a box set from Network Entertainment at the following link!

ORDER TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED COMPLETE SERIES DVD HERE!