The Box is a major cultural and heritage attraction and archive, which opened in Plymouth’s city centre in September 2020. Its collection, formally the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA), is the regional film archive for the South West of England, comprising the combined programme libraries of Westward Television and Television South West (TSW). It also includes a significant number of donated film collections dating back to the early 1890s.
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Get Some In! outside the Princess Theatre
Tony Selby terrorises new RAF national service recruits outside the theatre.
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Overview
Cast members of the TV comedy Get Some In! perform to the public and the cameras outside the Princess Theatre in Torquay as part of the summer season. The sitcom is based on the lives of a group of national servicemen in the Royal Air Force. Tony Selby plays Percy Marsh the pedant drill corporal making life miserable for the recruits who include actors Gerard Ryder as Matthew Lilley, David Janson as Ken Richardson, Brian Pettifer as Bruce Leckie and Robert Lindsay as Jakey Smith.
The Thames Television show ran from 1975 to 1978 and was written by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey who also wrote BBC sitcom The Good Life. All of the actors are well known TV stars. Tony Selby appeared in Aflie (1966) Villain (1971) and Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall (1972) and Superman (1978) with TV and stage roles including The Avengers, Dr Who, and Minder and with guest appearances in The Good Life and in My Family where he returned to work with Robert Lindsay. Robert Lindsay played Wolfie Smith in BBC's Citizen Smith 1977-1980 and Ben the dentist dad in My Family (2000-2011). He won Broadway's Tony Award in 1987 for the musical Me and My Girl.
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