Ken Dodd’s tax trial will be TV drama
KEN Dodd’s bizarre taxevasion trial is to be the subject of a new TV drama.
ITV is planning to base the programme on the late comic’s 1989 court case, which highlighted his eccentric approach to handling money.
Lawyer-turned-writer Clive Coleman has completed a script.
Ken, who died in 2018 aged 90, was acquitted of avoiding paying taxes of around £1million.
But the case revealed how he stashed £336,000 in cash (equivalent to £855,000 today) in suitcases in his attic, and how his Diddy Men were often played by local children, who were never paid.
Dodd later introduced himself on stage as “singer, photographic playboy and failed accountant”.