Pickles - Words to Fitt

Cast:Andrew MaclachlanDoctorThe true story, whichinspired the dramaOn the 20th of March, WorldCup Willie, the lion-footballerAda and Janice – Liz Frazer andCamille CoduriBernie – Keith BarronAngela CurranCamille CoduriCampbell MorrisonDavid RyallGeorge InnesGeorge RossiHarry EnfieldImogen BryonKeith BarronLiz FraserNicola BlandPaul KayeSamuel OatleyStewart HarwoodMidwifeJanice YeomansMcTavishMeriweatherBertieMcBraynePicklesSammy YeomansBernieAdaNicky YeomansLennie YeomansKen BowlesPolicemanPickles is an Impossible Picturesproduction for ITV1The Jules Rimet Cup wasdiscovered by Pickles at thebottom of a suburban hedgebut, in reality, Picklesbelonged to Dave Corbett - a26-year old river worker. Thepair discovered the trophy ontheir daily walk in the quiet,leafy suburbs of Norwood,South London.Champions, Brazil, hadhanded over the JulesRimet Cup to the FootballAssociation in March of1966; it was to be the mainattraction of the StampexSports for Stamps Exhibitionin Central Hall, Westminster.Security was tight to keep aneye on the three millionpound’s worth of rare stampsand, of course, the worldfamous “winged victory” goldcup within its glass case –the highest accolade in the“beautiful game”.and first official mascot of thetournament, grinned out fromhoardings and shopwindows; cereal boxes andbeer mats as football fevergripped the nation. Alongwith the Beatles and CarnabyStreet, the whole of Britainwas on a high as comedianKenneth Williams preparedto record the next instalmentof Around The Horne…BigBen is Still Missing, for BBCRadio. Then, somethingquite unthinkable happened:it wasn’t the fictional lack ofBig Ben that was spreadacross the evening news butthe embarrassingdisappearance of FIFA’sgolden Cup that reverberatedaround the world…© ITV 20063