What the Butler Saw (1987)

1987, | UK | Barry Davis | ★★★★★

Made for the BBC Theatre Night strand, Barry Davis's utterly bonkers What the Butler Saw is a trouser-soilingly funny television production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, packed with memorable dialogue and off-the-wall incident.

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White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this trouser-soilingly funny BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, in which the head psychiatrist of a lunatic asylum, when trying to conceal the attempted molestation of his new secretary from his wife, only succeeds in making himself (and everyone else) look completely round the bend.


See also:
Stotty's 1980s Favourites
Theatre Night (1985-90)