After twenty years as a struggling variety turn and then a prolific scriptwriter and television star, comic genius Marty Feldman found screen stardom with his very first Hollywood role in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. With his wife Lauretta as the power behind the throne, his rise and fall and decline is related through bittersweet memories of the past and intoxicated infidelities in the present.

• Wink Taylor
• Jessica Martin
• Sophie Aldred
• Camille Coduri
• Jon Culshaw
• Jim Dale
• Sandra Dickinson
• Sally Geeson