Faces of Jim
television series
Faces of Jim was a black-and-white British comedy television series starring Jimmy Edwards, June Whitfield and Ronnie Barker, with each episode being an individual half-hour sitcom. The first series aired as The Seven Faces of Jim, the second as Six More Faces of Jim and the third series as More Faces of Jim. All the episodes were written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
Cast
Main/recurring
Jimmy Edwards as various characters (Jim, Jimmy Micklethwaite, Village Doctor, Frobisher, Caleb Tregarthen, Doc Jamieson, Patient, Mr Padgett, Roman Emperor Hadrian, Big Jim Paxton, Secret Agent Fleming, Sir James Chubb)
June Whitfield as various characters (Nettie Winbourne, Prue Abernathy, Hannah Pengallon, Rowena, Madame Soo) (7 episodes)
Ronnie Barker as various characters (Ron Glum, Witch Doctor, Dr Brunner, Lennie, Lascivius, Sanderson, Butters)
Patrick Newell as various characters
Richard Briers as Driver and various characters
Guests
Victor Silvester
Dick Emery
Paul Eddington as Col. Downs (1 episode)
Prunella Scales
Toke Townley
Richard Waring
Amanda Barrie as Muriel (2 episodes)
Melvyn Hayes
Brian Oulton
Donald Hewlett
Jimmy Thompson
Arthur Ridley
Pat Coombs
Derek Nimmo
Edwin Apps
Patrick Connor
Derek Partridge as Grigor
Episodes
Series One: The Seven Faces of Jim (1961)
Series Two: Six More Faces of Jim (1962)
Christmas Special (1962)
Series Three: More Faces of Jim (1963)
Archive status
The first series of Faces of Jim survives in its entirety and so does the 1962 Christmas Short, but all of the other episodes (from series 2 and 3) were discarded by the BBC during the early 1970s, and remain missing. Some of the existing footage was used in a "Comedy Classics of the 60's" compilation VHS by Watershed Entertainment.
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