Harper's Locket

Harper's Locket is a play performed by Cornley Drama Society. It is the fifth installment in The Goes Wrong Show, and was first aired in the UK on 24th January 2020.

Synopsis
Celeste Fennick, her sister Emily, and her father Bernard, and Celeste's fiance Edwin, are playing in their garden. Celeste tells her father she wishes to marry for love, not money, but her father says the baron's money will look after her when he is gone. Bernard goes inside, and Celeste meets Harper, the stable boy, who she is in love with. Celeste returns inside as a storm is brewing.

It is revealed that Edwin and Emily are romantically involved, and Edwin blackmails Emily into staying with him. Edwin gives Harper a one-pound note, then frames him for theft. Harper is dismissed, and he asks Celeste to run away with him. The family sit down to dinner, but halfway through, Edwin reveals Celeste is planning to run away with Harper. Emily in turn reveals that her and Edwin have been having a "liason". Edwin goes outside and shoots Treacle, then turns his gun on Harper. Celeste dives in front of the gun and is shot. Emily produces a pistol and shoots Edwin. Celeste revives because of Harper's locket, and Treacle is revealed to have survived. Bernard gives Celeste his blessing to marry Harper, and the family go inside and sing "Home! Sweet Home!" again.

Cornley Cast

 * Celeste Fennnick - Sandra Wilkinson
 * Emily Fennick - Annie Twilloil
 * Bernard Fennick - Robert Grove
 * Baron Edwin Graves - Chris Bean
 * Smythe - Jonathan Harris
 * Mrs Hargreaves - Vanessa Wilcock-Wynn-Carroway
 * Treacle (horse) - Dennis Tyde
 * Harper - Max Bennett
 * Trevor Watson (himself)
 * Cat

Trivia

 * The cat in this episode is called Stuart and is 10 years old.
 * Trevor picking up the cat is inspired by a real event, when the cat was supposed to walk off but didn't, and the lady in charge of the cat crept in to shot to take him. The idea formed to have Trevor take the cat out of shot.
 * Before Harper enters, Celeste waves in the direction of the audience, but Harper comes in on Treacle from the back of the stage.
 * The body of the horse is reused in The Spirit of Christmas as Rudolph.
 * The part where Max is walking backwards and forwards up and down the step was created in rehearsal, when they saw that the set had a step.
 * This is the second time Dennis tries to bring his character into the plot, even though he is an object. In the Pilot (Not the Pilot) he asks if the machine is the spy, and in Harper's Locket he asks if the horse should take the money, to buy apples.
 * Dennis used to have a line to say that horses would spend money on hoovers. On the reply "Horses don't have hoovers!" Dennis would say, "Yes they do, they have them on their feet".
 * Greg Tannahill actually jumps through the glass; a stuntman did it first then Greg performed the stunt himself.
 * When Robert is reading the Dr Frog script, you can see Max is mouthing the lines along with him.
 * The high note for Jonathan to break the glass is sung by Nancy Zamit.
 * The noises of the cat inside the piano were done by Bryony Corrigan.
 * The blades of the fan were made of foam so it wasn't dangerous if they hit the actors.
 * This episode marks the first pre-watershed backside to be shown on BBC 1.