For 4 Tonight
Louise Gold
featured as Maureen Bedford, one of the team of four, in an episode (actually
Episode 2) first broadcast on London Weekend Television between 23:00 to 23:30
on 8 October 1983 (note, it must have been recorded several months earlier in
the year, prior to the 21 July)
Cast
George Irving - as Tony Royale (The TV Chat Show Host)
Rachel Bell - as Avril Petrie
The Team Of Four Guests
Yvonne Edgell
Jo Warne
Louise Gold - as Maureen Bedford
Norman Chappell
The Band
Don Harper
Stan Roderick
Ronnie Verrell
Uncredited in the TV Times (and BFI Database)
David Claridge
Production Team
Written by - Ruby Wax
Designer - Mike Oxley
Director/Producer -
Produced by -
Michael
Dolenz is also often credited as Mickey
Dolenz
It is worth
that as a singing-puppeteer Louise Gold has certainly performed to the
work of some of the members of The Band, since some of them had previously been
the actual musicians providing the music for ‘Electric Mayhem’ and co on
The Muppet Show. Notably: drummer Ronnie
Verrall provided the real drum notes for Animal.
Although
puppeteer David Claridge does not appear to have received a credit in
the TV Times for playing a guest on the show, he must have been
on this edition of the show because in an interview, fellow British
puppeteering legend Louise Gold recollected him being on it, and asking
her if she would be interested in working with him, and she subsequently
puppeteered on his big BBC show Roland Rat The Series.
Both of them went on to take part in the television documentary The Wonderful World Of Puppets.
Rachel Bell had previously appeared on stage with Louise Gold in Once A Catholic, a
production which was supposed to mark Louise
Gold’s “come back as a proper actress”.
Rachel Bell may have gone on to appear in Dear Ralph.
Ruby Wax may have gone on to take part in Thing A Thon.
Critics Comments
Links about For 4 Tonight
BBC Comedy
Guide page about For 4 Tonight: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/f/for4tonight_1299001175.shtml
TV Tome page about For 4 Tonight: http://www.tv.com/for-4-tonight/show/18819/summary.html
Tibby’s
Bowl / Muppet Central Interview with Louise Gold (where she specifically mentions David Claridge
being on For 4 Tonight): http://www.muppetcentral.com/articles/interviews/gold.shtml
BFI
Database’s
Entry for the programme: http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/211744
Channel
Four at 20 Years page for 1983: http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/features/c4/1983.htm
Normal
Chappell’s television biography (on
a site for The Avengers): http://theavengers.tv/forever/pnote-chappell.htm
TV Dynasty page for the show: http://www.tvdynasty.com/showlist.php?s=6811
Memorable
