The Yeomen of the Guard

Overview

BBC 1975. Jack Point and his sweetheart Elsie come to the Tower to earn money with which to buy medicine for her sick mother. Elsie is persuaded to become the secret bride of Fairfax 'to be beheaded in an hour,' but then he escapes.

Directed by John Gorrie

Top cast

D

David Hillman

Colonel Fairfax

D

Derek Hammond-Stroud

Jack Point

Terry Jenkins

Leonard Meryll

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Dennis Wicks

Wilfred Shadbolt

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Valerie Masterson

Elsie Maynard

J

Janet Hughes

Phoebe Meryll

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Elizabeth Bainbridge

Dame Carruthers

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Richard Angas

Sir Richard Cholmondeley

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Bryan Drake

Sergeant Meryll

Details