Jimmy Clitheroe Collection : ABC TV : Audio

From the Jimmy Clitheroe collection . These audio recordings are script read-throughs and rehearsals from lost episodes of the ABC television series Just Jimmy starring Jimmy Clitheroe, which aired in the UK from 1964 until 1968. Only one of the 52 episodes now survives on film. But Jimmy himself recorded some script material from a handful of the now lost episodes. Recordings from the collection of open reel tapes in the personal collection recorded in the 1950s and 1960s by professional English comedian Jimmy Clitheroe. In the 1950s he bought one of the newly invented tape recorders, which were sold to the public from 1955 onwards. He used this mainly in order to record his stage act. But he also used it as a hobby, and recorded items in which he was interested from radio, television and records. Jimmy Clitheroe lived in Blackpool, Lancashire, the Mecca of British showbusiness, and appeared professionally in the Variety theatres, in the Cinema, on BBC Radio and on ITV Television doing a cheeky schoolboy act. He is most famous as the star of the radio comedy series The Clitheroe Kid which ran from 1956 until 1972. The 50 year period of broadcast copyright under section 14(2) of the UK's Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 ( www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/14 ) has expired for all broadcast items included in this collection.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.