Jill Allgood

Jill Allgood (15 November 1910 – 1995) was a British producer, director, script writer, author and broadcaster who worked for the BBC.[1]

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.[2] There she got to know Bebe and Ben, who were often requested guests on that programme.[3] 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.[4]

Radio
Year Title Role Notes
1944 to 1946 Here’s Wishing You Well Again[5] Producer
1947 to 1949 Woman’s Hour[6] Script
1947 Follow the Sun[7] Script
1948 Woman’s Hour: Visiting a Lightship[8] Script
1949 Harry Hemsley in Hemsley’s Hotel[9] Script
1950 For the Children: Telescope[10] Editor
1950 For the Children: Children’s Newsreel: Roman City[11] Presenter
1950 For the Children: Children’s Newsreel[12] Presenter & Script
1950 The Adventures of Butterball[13] Editor
1951 For the Children: Puppet Party[14] Producer
1951 For the Children: The Final Edition of Telescope[15] Producer & Editor
1951 For the Children: Children’s Art[16] Producer
1962 Sunday Story: St. Francis of Assisi 1. A Wealthy Young Man[17] Writer
1962 Sunday Story: St. Francis of Assisi 2. The Builder[18] Writer
1962 Sunday Story: Tales from Tolstoy[19] Writer
1963 Sunday Story: St. Francis of Assisi 3. The Rule and the Order[20] Writer
1963 Sunday Story: St. Francis of Assisi 4. Love and Courage[21] Writer
1963 Sunday Story: St. Francis of Assisi 5. The Last Song[22] Writer

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1960 Four Feather Falls[23] Screenplay 9 episodes

Filmography
Year Film Role Notes
Director Writer
1959 The Adventures of Timothy Telescope[24][25] No No Yes No

Bibliography
  • Allgood, Jill (1951). Timothy Telescope, Cactus the Camel & Valerie Hobson in Ship Ahoy!. Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd.
  • Allgood, Jill (1975). Bebe and Ben. Robert Hale & Co. ISBN 0-709-14942-5.
  • Daniels, Bebe; Allgood, Jill (1950). 282 ways of making a salad with favorite recipes by British and American personalities and stars. Cassell & Co. OCLC 13066530.

References
  1. BBC Jill Allgood
  2. Bebe and Ben, p.136
  3. Bebe and Ben, p.137
  4. Four Feather Falls on IMDB
  5. BBC Genome Here’s Wishing You Well Again, Jill Allgood
  6. BBC Genome Woman's Hour, Jill Allgood
  7. BBC Genome Follow the Sun, Jill Allgood
  8. BBC Genome Woman’s Hour: Visiting a Lightship, Jill Allgood
  9. BBC Genome Harry Hemsley in Hemsley’s Hotel, Jill Allgood
  10. BBC Genome For the Children: Telescope, Jill Allgood
  11. BBC Genome For the Children: Children’s Newsreel: Roman City, Jill Allgood
  12. BBC Genome For the Children: Children’s Newsreel, Jill Allgood
  13. BBC Genome The Adventures of Butterball, Jill Allgood
  14. BBC Genome For the Children: Puppet Party, Jill Allgood
  15. BBC Genome For the Children: The Final Edition of Telescope, Jill Allgood
  16. BBC Genome For the Children: Children’s Art, Jill Allgood
  17. BBC Genome Sunday Story: A Wealthy Young Man, Jill Allgood
  18. BBC Genome Sunday Story: The Builder, Jill Allgood
  19. BBC Genome Sunday Story: Tales from Tolstoy, Jill Allgood
  20. BBC Genome Sunday Story: The Rule and the Order, Jill Allgood
  21. BBC Genome Sunday Story: Love and Courage, Jill Allgood
  22. BBC Genome Sunday Story: The Last Song, Jill Allgood
  23. Four Feather Falls, Credits
  24. "The Adventures of Timothy Telescope (1956)". Archived from the original on 27 October 2016.
  25. "Marionette of Cactus the Camel | Whanslaw, H.W. | V&A Explore the Collections".
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