title: Rookery Nook (1970 TV drama)
text: # Rookery Nook (1970 TV drama)
  
  Rookery Nook is a 1970 British television production by the BBC.
  
  ## Sources
  
  The BBC's production was based on the play Rookery Nook, one of the Aldwych farces, by Ben Travers.
  
  ## First showing
  
  First transmitted by the BBC on 19 September 1970, it was made in colour on videotape, but survives only as a monochrome telerecording.
  
  ## Revival
  
  The BBC's film was revived in 1994 by the National Film Theatre, the UK's leading revival house.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Richard Briers ... Gerald Popkiss
  * Arthur Lowe ... Harold Twine
  * Joan Cooper ... Gertrude Twine
  * Irene Handl ... Mrs. Leverett
  * Elizabeth Knight ... Rhoda Marley
  * Moray Watson ... Clive Popkiss
  * Francis de Wolff ... Putz
  * Geoffrey Lumsden ... Admiral Juddy
  * Mary Millar ... Poppy Dickie
  * Jenny McCracken ... Clara Popkiss
  * Kathleen Saintsbury ... Mrs. Possett
  