The Daily Mirror's Fosdyke Saga One

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When Ditchley’s scheme is quashed by Vicky’s suffragette comrades, the cad enlists “Legendary Lancashire Lothario” T. As so little of their superb output is readily accessible to digital-age readers, I’m celebrating their amazing achievements and acknowledging my personal debt to them here with items that can still be easily sourced and the heartfelt advice that if you like to laugh and have a surreal bent, these are comedy craftsmen you need to know.

However, the slightly bizarre and strange antics of the characters and those around them had a Lancashire/ Cheshire lean, with mangles, chimneys and soot ever-present. Over in a corner somewhere, the bigger picture, establishment inertia and adamantine class structures were still being poked at by a dying cadre of satirists.Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Adapted by Alan Plater from the saga by Bill Tidy with music by Bill Wrigley it held and amused the full house audience from beginning to end. This was the story of the family Fosdyke who had moved from the mines of Griddlesbury to Manchester where the head of the house, Josiah, found a job with mystery man Ben Ditchley who was the Lancashire Tripe King.These are the orginal artwork boards created and drawn by Bill Tidy from which the final image would have been taken,. The concept is a parody of The Forsyte Saga, a trio of novels following the intrigues of an upper-class family over the decades. Performed in London and the north in the early 1980s, it was an exuberant mixture of satire and coarse humour, including a scene where the actors threw tripe at the audience – and usually had it thrown back at them.