Always Something Hot

aka Armchair Theatre: Always Something Hot

Directed by Philip Saville
Writer: Donald Churchill

Episode aired 28 October, 1962

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• Roger Avon . . . . . . . . . . Weedon
  Charlie Bird . . . . . . . . . . Uncle Jack (as Charles Bird)
  Michael Coles . . . . . . . . . . Ginge
  Patrick Duggan . . . . . . . . . . Paddy
  Frank Finlay . . . . . . . . . . Bosun
  Gretchen Franklin . . . . . . . . . . Else
  Jay Huguely . . . . . . . . . . Biker #1
  Ronald Lacey . . . . . . . . . . Tom
  Michael Lehrer . . . . . . . . . . Biker #2
  Philip Locke . . . . . . . . . . Sid
  Reg Lye . . . . . . . . . . Dad
  Bryan Mosley . . . . . . . . . . Sam
  Will Stampe . . . . . . . . . . Bert
  Frank Thornton . . . . . . . . . . Frank
  
  

  Donald Churchill and Frank were close friends and worked together several times. Frank and Donald both appear in The Wild Affair (1963) and Frank plays a Council Foreman in the comedy film short The Spare Tyres (1967) again written by Donald.
  
  Bryan Mosley is probably best remembered as the as grocer Alf Roberts in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street. Bryan trained at the Northern Theatre School in Bradford, and was classmates with Frank's wife Doreen Finlay.

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  Armchair Theatre was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation. Its franchise successor Thames Television took over from mid-1968.
  
  Frank appeared in several Armchair Theatre productions:
  
  A Foot in the Door (1969) ... David Field
  Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width (1967) ... Patrick Kelly
  Always Something Hot (1962) ... Bosun
  The Hard Knock (1962) ... Franco Angelo