This BBC comedy series took a look at life in a railway signal box at Penrhiw in rural Breconshire (Wales).
Jack Walters played the title role (a role he had played in a number of movies in the 1950s and in the six-part 1959 TV series The Davy Jones Saga), with Aubrey Richards as Tom the Relief (Davy’s helper), Dilys Davies as Liza Hargest (a well-to-do widow who was pursuing Davy), and Ieuan Rhys Williams as local bobby PC Prosser.
In addition to his job in the signal box, Davy had plenty of leisure time to get up to all kinds of mischief, very often stretching the law as far as it would go.
Created by playwright TC Thomas, the character of Davy Jones was a veritable legend in Wales and appeared in many radio and television shows in that country. This eight-part series was directed by Myrfyn Owen.
Davy Jones
Jack Walters Tom the Relief
Aubrey Richards Liza Hargest
Dilys Davies PC Prosser
Ieuan Rhys Williams Frankie the Wern
Howell Evans Major D. Pryce-Powell OBE, JP
Evan Thomas Morgan the Keeper
Eynon Evans Mitsie Mulligan
Carmel McSharry Burgess
Larry Burns Maggie Williams
Madge Jones Price the Cwm
Brinley Jenkins Jenkins the Stores
W.H. Williams Railways Inspector
Graham Suter Banning the Planning
Dillwyn Owen Curtis the Caravans
D.L. Davies Wilson
Islwyn Williams Williams the Blue Boar
Emrys Cleaver Evan Evans
George David
