What the Butler Saw

The story

White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, in which the head psychiatrist of a lunatic asylum, when trying to conceal the attempted molestation of his new secretary from his wife, only succeeds in making himself (and everyone else) look completely round the bend.

Cast & crew

Dinsdale Landen

Dr Prentice

Prunella Scales

Mrs Prentice

Timothy West

Dr Rance

Tyler Butterworth

Nicholas Beckett

Tessa Peake-Jones

Geraldine Barclay

Bryan Pringle

Sergeant Match

BD

Barry Davis

Director

JP

Jim Parker

Music

Shaun Sutton

Producer