Jill Allgood
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Jill Allgood (15 November 1910 – 1995) was a British producer, director, script writer, author and broadcaster who worked for the BBC.[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=0&q=jill+allgood&media=all&yf=1923&yt=2009&mf=1&mt=12&tf=00%3A00&tt=00%3A00#search BBC] Jill Allgood
Allgood was a personal friend of Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, and worked with them professionally. In 1944 she was working for Cecil Madden, Head of BBC Overseas Entertainment, and from 1944 to 1946, with Howard Agg (and later with C. F. Meehan), she devised and produced a weekly/fortnightly programme for forces in hospitals called Here's Wishing You Well Again.Bebe and Ben, p.136 There she got to know Bebe and Ben, who were often requested guests on that programme.Bebe and Ben, p.137 She collaborated with Bebe on episodes of Life with the Lyons, and wrote their biography Bebe and Ben.
Between 1947 and 1949 Jill Allgood wrote documentary scripts for the BBC's Woman's Hour, followed by work as editor, presenter and producer of children's radio programmes. In 1960 she created nine episodes of Four Feather Falls, a TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1145233/fullcredits/ Four Feather Falls on IMDB]
Radio
Television
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| 1960
| Four Feather Falls[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1145233/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm Four Feather Falls, Credits] | Screenplay | 9 episodes |
Filmography
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| 1959
|The Adventures of Timothy Telescope{{cite web | url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8929f96e | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027060940/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8929f96e | url-status=dead | archive-date=27 October 2016 | title=The Adventures of Timothy Telescope (1956) }}{{cite web | url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O103294/cactus-the-camel-puppet-whanslaw-hw/ | title=Marionette of Cactus the Camel | Whanslaw, H.W. | V&A Explore the Collections }} | {{no}} | {{no}} | {{Yes}} | {{no}} |
Bibliography
- {{Cite book | last = Allgood | first = Jill | title = Timothy Telescope, Cactus the Camel & Valerie Hobson in Ship Ahoy! | year = 1951 | publisher = Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd.}}
- {{Cite book | last = Allgood | first = Jill | title = Bebe and Ben | year = 1975 | publisher = Robert Hale & Co. | isbn = 0-709-14942-5 }}
- {{Cite book | last1=Daniels | first1= Bebe | last2= Allgood | first2= Jill | title = 282 ways of making a salad with favorite recipes by British and American personalities and stars | year = 1950 | publisher = Cassell & Co | oclc=13066530 }}