Cantankerous Dan Wicklow – “Old Saltie” to his friends – and his cronies in the local Shillingbury brass band resist the attempts by young Peter Higgins, a celebrity pop musician who has moved to the village with his wife Sally, to help improve the band in an English village, when Saltie resigns after some criticism.
But with the band now working to rule can Peter actually win them over or are the days of the brass band doomed for good?
This was the feature-length pilot for the successful series of village life episodes that followed in a quaint drama-sitcom series The Shillingbury Tales.
The entire series (and this pilot film) was filmed on 16mm film and entirely on location. The village of Shillingbury is in reality, Aldbury in Hertfordshire.
Peter Higgins
Robin Nedwell Sally Higgins
Diane Keen Saltie
Trevor Howard Jake Smith
Jack Douglas Reggie
Sam Kydd Sam
Eric Francis Harvey
Joe Black Basil
Tony Sympson Council Chairman
John Le Mesurier Mr Meadows
Patrick Newell Mrs Simpkins
Diana King Mr Fennel
Miles Anderson
Director
Val Guest
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