title: Elephant's Eggs in a Rhubarb Tree
text: # Elephant's Eggs in a Rhubarb Tree
  
  Elephant's Eggs in a Rhubarb Tree is a 1971 British children's show which featured a variety of poems, songs, and comedy sketches.
  
  ## Premise
  
  The show featured recitations of works from such writers as T.S Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, and Spike Milligan. The cast of the show would often dress up as the characters in the poems and songs that were being recited.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Ann Beach
  * Richard Beckinsale
  * John Gould
  * David Rowlands
  * Paul Whitsun-Jones
  
  ## Production
  
  The series was recorded at Teddington Studios in Studio 2.
  
  ## Episodes
  
  Three of the six episodes of Elephant's Eggs in a Rhubarb Tree were filmed in black and white due to the Colour Strike in 1971. All six episodes are missing, believed wiped.
  
  