The Yeomen of the Guard

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.

• John GorrieDirector

• David HillmanColonel Fairfax
• Derek Hammond-StroudJack Point
• Terry JenkinsLeonard Meryll
• Dennis WicksWilfred Shadbolt
• Valerie MastersonElsie Maynard
• Janet HughesPhoebe Meryll
• Elizabeth BainbridgeDame Carruthers
• Richard AngasSir Richard Cholmondeley
• Bryan DrakeSergeant Meryll