Arthur's Treasured Volumes

*Arthur's Treasured Volumes*
Arthur's Treasured Volumes
	Anthea and Arthur Askey in Arthur's Treasured Volumes
Genre	Sitcom
Starring	Arthur Askey; Anthea Askey; Sam Kydd; Arthur Mullard
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	ATV
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	2 May –; 6 June 1960

Arthur's Treasured Volumes was a black-and-white British television series that aired on ITV in 1960. Starring Arthur Askey, it was written by Dave Freeman and was made for the ITV network by ATV.

All six episodes were missing having been presumed wiped during the 1960s, until part of the first episode "A Blow In Anger" was recovered by Paul Stroud and shown at the National Film Theatre in November 2003.^[1] The remaining episodes were re-discovered in ITV's archive by a researcher from archive television organisation Kaleidoscope in December 2019.^[2]

Cast

Arthur Askey - Various
Anthea Askey - Herself/narrator
Sam Kydd - Various
Arthur Mullard - Various
Roger Avon - Various
Tony Sampson - Various
Paddi Edwards - Various
Billy Tasker - Various
Barbara Mitchell - Various
Wilfrid Brambell - Various
Patrick Newell - Various
June Whitfield - Enid Brown
Janet Davies - Miss Tiddy
David Garth - Hamlet

Plot

Arthur's Treasured Volumes was a series of one-episode sitcoms. At the beginning of each episode, Anthea Askey, Arthur's daughter, takes down a book from a shelf and the story begins. All the 'books' are in fact scripts written by Dave Freeman. In each episode, Arthur Askey, Sam Kydd and Arthur Mullard play different roles. Amongst those who made guest appearances were Wilfrid Brambell, Patrick Newell, June Whitfield and Geoffrey Palmer.