Cast
- Michael Palin as The Reverend Charles Fortescue
- Maggie Smith as Lady Isabel Ames
- Trevor Howard as Lord Henry Ames
- Denholm Elliott as The Bishop
- Michael Hordern as Slatterthwaite / Narrator
- Graham Crowden as The Reverend Fitzbanks
- David Suchet as Corbett
- Phoebe Nicholls as Deborah Fitzbanks
- Tricia George as Ada
- Valerie Whittington as Emmeline
- Roland Culver as Lord Fermleigh
- Rosamund Greenwood as Lady Fermleigh
- Timothy Spall as Parswell
- Neil Innes as Singer in Gin Palace
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