Derek Farr starred in Nightingale’s Boys, a seven-part ITV series about Bill “Tweety” Nightingale, an elderly teacher who set out to discover what had become of some of the pupils from his sixth form class of 1949 – including “Izzy”, Big Sid and A.J.
One’s now a governor, another a leading local tycoon, and one is in the army though no one can think why.
The last of ‘Nightingale’s boys’ he meets up with is his own son, David (Alec Sabin) which also precipitates a meeting with his estranged wife Agnes (Barbara Lott)
Bill “Tweety” Nightingale
Derek Farr Margaret
Pauline Yates Nick Selby
Terry Gilligan Bonzo Matthews
Stephen Truelove Cyril “Izzy” Coutts
Anton Rodgers Sid Taylor
Ronald Lewis David “Flossie” Fryer
David Swift Harry Selby
Bernard Gallagher Clare Selby
Anne Reid Trevor Selby
Gerrard Ryder Nick Selby
Terry Gilligan Major Alistair James (A.J.) Cartwright John Carson David
Alec Sabin Agnes
Barbara Lott Headmaster
Bernard Brown Hal Crowther
Michael Hawkins
