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(Mainly 90 min. Plays)
Season 3 (1957-58)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:
references:
TV Times / The Viewer / BFI / ITN
Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com)

 ########### ITV Play of the Week #############
############## season 3 1957-58 ##############
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ITV Network Wednesdays

3.1 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE WOODEN DISH [BFI] (04/09/1957)
04Sep57 ITV Wed 9:00-10:15pm (75min)
Starring: Joseph Tomelty, Barbara Chilcott

3.2 [--] ITV Play of the Week: KNIFE IN THE FAMILY
11Sep57 ITV Wed 9:00-10:15pm (75min)
Written by Jon Cleary

3.3 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE GREEN BAY TREE
18Sep57 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm (90min)

3.4 [--] ITV Play of the Week: WILD JUSTICE
25Sep57 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm (90min)
Written by James Dale
Starring: Phyllis Calvert, Henry Oscar

3.5 [--] ITV Play of the Week: ROPE [BFI] (02/10/1957)
2Oct57 ITV Wed 8:45-10:00pm (75min)
Written by Patrick Hamilton
Starring: Dennis Price, Alec McCowen, Ian Holm

3.6 [--] ITV Play of the Week: ARROW IN THE AIR
9Oct57 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm (90min)
Starring: John Phillpis, Ian Hunter, June Thorburn

3.7 [--] ITV Play of the Week: RING ROUND THE MOON
16Oct57 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm (90min)
Starring: Yvonne Arnaud, Heather Sears, Paul Massie

3.8 [--] ITV Play of the Week: LOST BOUNDARIES
23Oct57 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm (90min)
Starring: Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer

3.9 The GUINEA PIG [BFI] (30/10/1957)
30Oct57

3.10 [--] ITV Play of the Week: MRS. WILLIE
6Nov57 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm (90min)
Starring: Yvonne Arnaud, Michael Shepley, Anton Diffring


3.11 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE SPRINGTIME OF OTHERS
13Nov57 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm (90min)
Starring: Diana Wynyard, Geraldine McEwan


3.12 [--] ITV Play of the Week: WIDOWERS' HOUSES
20Nov57 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm (90min)
Starring: Harry H. Corbett

3.13 [--] ITV Play of the Week: DEATH OF A SALESMAN [BFI] (imdb have this as solo entry)
27Nov57ITV Wed 8:00-10:00pm (120min)
Granada Television Production


3.14 [--] ITV Play of the Week: MISS MABEL
4Dec57 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm (90min)
Starring: Mary Merrall

3.15 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE GRASS HARP
11Dec57 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm (90min)
Starring: Elisabeth Welch, Mary Hinton, William Devlin


3.16 [--] ITV Play of the Week: A VOICE IN VISION [BFI] (18/12/1957)
18Dec57 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm (90min)
Starring: Michael Gwynn, Leslie Phillips

3.x 25Dec57 - possibly no episode

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3.17 1Jan58 - No Play (Guardian)
3.18 8Jan58 - No Play (Guardian)
3.19 15Jan58 - No Play (Guardian)

3.20 [--] ITV Play of the Week: JOHNNY BELINDA [BFI] (22/01/1958)
22Jan58 Wed 8:30pm

3.21 [--] ITV Play of the Week: REUNION IN VIENNA
29Jan58 Wed 8:30pm

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3.22 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE WITCH
05Feb58 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm (90min)
Writtne by Jan Wiers Jenson
Starring: Michael Hordern, Geraldine McEwan, Beatrix Lehmann,
Nora Nicholson, Ernest Milton

3.23 [--] ITV Play of the Week: No. 17 [according to Times Archive]
12Feb58 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm (90min)
Starring: Laurence Payne, Jerry Verno

3.24 MONTSERRAT [BFI] (19/02/1958)
19Feb58

3.25 [--] ITV Play of the Week: + MYSELF WHEN YOUNG (90 min)
26Feb58 ITV Wed 9:00-10:30pm
Associated-Rediffusion production
starring
Dennis Price
Maxine Audley ...... Leonora
Zena Walker
Jeremy Brett ......... Paul Chase

3.26 [--] ITV Play of the Week: ... AND HUMANITY (90 min)
05Mar58 ITV Wed 9:00-10:30pm
Staring: Flora Robson

[--] 10Mar58 Monday 8:30pm - "Doomsday for Dyson" (60 min) - Granada Prod - (imdb solo entry)

3.27 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE ROSSITERS (90 min)
12-Mar-1958 ITV Wed 9:00-10:30pm
Play written by Keneth Hyde/ Adapted for television by Peter Key
Directed by Cyril Coke
Sets Designed by Michael Yates
starring
Sarah Lawson ......... Elizabeth Rossiter
Laurence Payne ....... Peter Rossiter
Melissa Stribling .... Honer Rossiter
With:
Noel Hood ............ Martha Rossiter
Maurice Colbourne .... Sir James Ferguson
Hugh Moxey ........... Dr. Bendix
Catherine Finn ....... Nurse West
In the Rossiter's lonely house by the sea there is an atmosphere of increasing tension. Elizabeth Rositer
who is still suffering the effects of a serious motor accident must struggle to save her marriage which is
threatened with disaster. But being so physically handicapped how can she do this? What is the real truth
behind her accident? Kenneth Hyde's very unusual and exciting play provides a gripping answer.
ATV Network Production

3.28 [--] ITV Play of the Week: The IRON HARP [BFI] (19/03/1958) (imdb have solo entry)
19Mar58 Wed

3.29 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST
26Mar58 ITV Wed 9:30-11:00pm
Written by Oscar Wilde
Starring: Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Maureen Swanson, Tony Britton

3.30 [--] ITV Play of the Week: WINTERSET
02Apr58 ITV Wed 9:00-10:30pm
Written by Maxwell Anderson
Starring: George Rose, John Phillips, Brian Bedford, Carl Bernard


3.31 [--] ITV Play of the Week: NO MEDALS
09Apr58 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm
Starring: Sophie Stewart

3.32 [--] ITV Play of the Week: + THE MYTHMAKERS (90 min) [ITN Source][BFI]
16Apr58 ITV Wed
Granada Prouction
Director: SILVIO NARIZZANO
Author: WILLIAM BAST
Cast:
PAT ENGLISH
JOHN SULLIVAN
DENIS NOLAN
CLIN DOUGLAS
VERA COOK
PETER MADDEN
KATE REID
SUSAN CRAWFORD
PHILLIP HOLLES
JILL NYASA
KEVIN SCOTT
ORLANDO MARTINS
NICK BRADY

3.33 [--] ITV Play of the Week: SCHOOL FOR WIVES [BFI] (imdb have this as solo entry)
23Apr58 ITV Wed
Associated-Rediffusion production
Directed by Cyril Butcher
Adapted by Miles Malleson from Molière's play "L'ecole des femmes"
Genre: Comedy
Cast (in credits order)
Frankie Howerd .... Arnolphe, a rich man
Leslie French .... Chrysalde, his friend
Kenneth Griffith .... Alain, a countryman
Joan Newell .... Georgette, a countrywoman
Zena Walker .... Agnes
Charles Laurence .... Horace, Oronte's son
John Bailey .... Enrique, who has been in America
Frederick Farley .... Oronte, a friend of Arnolphe

3.34 [--] ITV Play of the Week: SQUARING THE CIRCLE
30Apr58 ITV Wed 8.30-10:00pm
Staring: Miriam Karlin, Brian Bedford

3.35 [--] ITV Play of the Week: CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY
7May58 ITV Wed 8.30-10:00pm

3.36 [--] ITV Play of the Week: + ALL MY SONS [BFI] (90 min)
14May58 ITV Wed 8.30pm
(production company Not known)
written by Arthur Miller
directed by Cliff Owen
starring
Albert Dekker
Megs Jenkins
Betta St John
Patrick McGoohan

3.37 [--] ITV Play of the Week: SHADOW OF THE VINE
21May58 ITV Wed 8:45-10:15pm
Starring:
Joan Miller, Richard Bird

3.38 [--] ITV Play of the Week: AS THE TWIG IS BENT
28May58 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm
Starring: Brian Bedford


3.39 [--] ITV Play of the Week:+ DISTURBANCE
04Jun58 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm
Associated-Rediffusion production
Cast:
Arthur Lowe (fourth in the cast)
Synopsis:
Prison hostage drama.

3.40 The TROUBLEMAKERS [BFI] (11/06/1958)
11Jun58 Wed 8:45-10:00pm (75min) (late start due to Football)
Written by George Bellack
Starring:
Lee Patterson

3.41 THE CHIGWELL CHICKEN
18Jun58 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm

3.42 THE LINDEN TREE
25Jun58 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm
Starring: Irene Browne


3.43 [--] ITV Play of the Week: + A ROOM WITH A VIEW
02Jul58 ITV Wed
Associated-Rediffusion production

3.44 ITV Play of the Week: THE KIDDERS [BFI] (09/07/1958)
9Jul58 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm
Starring:
Faith Brook, Lyndon Brook

3.45 [--] ITV Play of the Week: YOU NEVER CAN TELL
16Jul58 Wed

3.46 [--] ITV Play of the Week: HOW CHARLES BRAVO DIED
23Jul58 ITV Wed 8:00-9:20pm (80 min slot) (early finish because of "Boxing")

3.47 [--] ITV Play of the Week: A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY (II)
30Jul58 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm (*** repeat or restaging ? -see 27Jan55)
Starring:
Margaret Leighton
Laurence Harvey ......... Beliayev

3.48 [--] ITV Play of the Week: +THE CURIOUS SAVAGE [BFI]
06Aug58 ITV Wed
Associated-Rediffusion production

3.49 [--] THE YOUNG MAY MOON
13Aug58 ITV Wed 8:30-10:00pm
(no cast details)

3.50 [--] ARSENIC AND OLD LACE [BFI] (20/08/1958)
20Aug58


3.51 [--] ITV Play of the Week: + THE CAMEL'S BACK
27Aug58 ITV Wed
Associated-Rediffusion production

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