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Tales of the Unexpected: Georgy Porgy

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George is an English vicar with a fantasy life. He sees naked women during his sermons. One day, he finds he is suddenly irresistible to the opposite sex, and a beautiful woman throws herself at him on a river bank. What is going on?

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Writers:: Robin Chapman Roald Dahl

Director:: Graham Evans

Stars:: Roald Dahl (Presenter (1979-1980)); Karen Standley (Dancer (title sequence))

Guest Star:: John Biggerstaff (Pollard); Peter Godfrey (Doctor); John Alderton (Reverend George Duckworth); Joan Collins (Clare Duckworth & Mrs Roach); Jacob Witkin (Boris Duckworth); Grant Bardsley (George Duckworth as a child); Lally Bowers (Miss Elphinstone); Ann Beach (Miss Unwin); Margaretta Scott (Lady Birdwell)

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This episode is based on Roald Dahl's story Georgy Porgy.

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The Bishop of Norwich stepped in to stop a scene from Georgy Porgy from being shot in a Norfolk parish church, after he learned that several actresses would be seen sitting naked in the pews. The scene was eventually shot in a former church in Norwich which had been converted into a coffee bar, and the actresses wore body stockings.

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Roald Dahl: The possibility that a large woman might one day swallow a small clergyman is one that has always appealed to me. My mind first started wandering in this direction one day in the zoo, while I stood watching a huge snake swallowing a live rat. The rat didn't wish to be swallowed, he was against it, but the snake had hypnotized him. So he had no chance, and down he went. The keeper told me it would take the snake five days to digest the rat, and that's when I got to wondering how long a large woman would take to digest a clergyman with all his clothes on, if he were not too big. That, of course, would depend on the woman. But I know one or two who could have him for breakfast and still feel hungry at the end of it.

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