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Ooh er, what a drama | Daily Star Legend, Frankie Howerd

Dennis Heymer claims the BBC has gone back on a promise to feature the documentary alongside a drama of its own called Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me.

Mr Heymer, 80, says he only co-operated on the drama, starring Little Britain’s David Walliams, 36, as Frankie, on condition his film was also shown.

But Mark Bell, boss of BBC2 and BBC4, decided When Frankie Met Dennis – starring Sir Ian McKellen, 68, and Eric Sykes, 84 – “lacked clarity of purpose” and axed it.

BBC lawyers said the Corporation gave no undertaking to Mr Heymer to show When Frankie Met Dennis.

Mr Heymer is refusing to accept a £4,500 BBC fee for working on the Walliams project, which will be shown on BBC4 on April 9, and says he may sue.