Peter Noone (Herman, sans Hermits) and Tippy Walker ignore the ghost.
 It looks like ABC is going to come up with a humorous version of quite a funny old play. "The Canterville Ghost," Oscar Wilde's comedy about a harried haunter, will take to song when it appears on the network's Stage 67. Britain's Sir Michael Redgrave, in an atypical singing role, will portray both the unhappy spook and his extant descendant. The story itself concerns the 350-year-old ghost of Canterville Hall, who attempts - with little success - to scare an American family (headed by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Natalie Schafer) out of the 13th-century English castle. They are not impressed. |
Amid Elizabethan and Mersyside songs, Sir Simon calls upon his ghostly resources to combat American resistance. He haunts as himself (below) and as a host of other ectoplastmic creeps, including Silent Jack (above) and Jonas the Graveless (left); but all to no avail. The redoubtable Yanks prevail and the ghost gives up. "The haunting part is rather a lark ... (but) ... it's not a very exciting life, or death, or whatever it is," he grumbles.
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