Barry Wade had small acting roles in many television production including Callan, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Who and The First Churchills. Clifford Hensley had also made appearances on television in very minor roles such as Dads Army, Dr. Who and The First Churchills.

Joe 'Mr. Piano' Henderson (02/05/1920 – 04/05/1980) was the special guest star at this years pantomime. His popularity began in the mid 1950's when he had some success as a recording artist with five songs reaching the UK singles charts. A much publicised affair with the singer/actress Petula Clark kept him in the spotlight and he later went on to present a BBC Radio 2 show for many years.

Charles Hawtrey (30/11/1914 – 27/10/1988), spent much of his life either performing on the stage or appearing in front of the camera. His earliest stage performance was in 1925, aged 11, and by the late 1930s was appearing in the very successful Will Hay films. In the 1950s he became a television star after joining the cast of The Army Game as well as making the first of 23 appearances in the 'Carry on' films, for which he was best remembered.

Monica Rose (11/02/1948 – 02/02/1994), at the time of this pantomime was a very well known game show hostess. She worked alongside main host Hughie Green on the hugely successful Double Your Money and The Sky's the Limit quiz shows. She was also a singer and had released an album Oh! You Beautiful Doll the same year as this production. She retired from show business in 1977. Supporting actor Johnnie Clayton was also known to TV audiences with appearances in Doctor in the House, Comedy Playhouse, Armchair Theatre and Dixon of Dock Green. He later went on to appear in the very first episode of BBC's soap drama Eastenders in a non speaking role where he was immortalised for being the shows first 'death'.

This years guest star was Gillian Bailey (b. 14/06/1955), who was famous for playing the part of Billie in the television series Here Come the Double Deckers. She went on to play another prominent role in Thursday's Child and a supporting role in Follyfoot.

Writer and actor George Layton (b. 02/03/1943) had a leading role in the television comedy series Doctor in the House as the character Paul Collier, and in the subsequent sequels. As a writer he wrote episodes for On the Buses and Robin's Nest among others. Brian Cant (12/07/1933 - 19/06/2017) was an actor, presenter and voice artist. His credits include Play School, Play Away, Dappledown Farm and many others. He also narrated and sang the songs in the children's 'stop motion' puppet series Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley.

Alan Browning (23/03/1926 – 07/09/1979), was born Alan Brown; changing his name to Browning when he took up acting in the 1950s. He had a number of small roles in a handful of films but is best remembered for playing the part of 'Alan Howard' in Granada Television's Coronation Street from 1969 to 1972. He married his co-star Patricia Phoenix in 1972 and was still with her when he died on 7th September, 1979.

Veronica Doran (b. 17/05/1948) had many television and film roles but is perhaps best remembered as playing Marion Yeats (née Willis) in Coronation Street between 1982 and 1983.