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(Mainly 90 min. Plays)
Season 7 (1961-62)
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 7 1961-62 ##############
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ITV Network Tuesdays 9:35-11:05pm (90 min)
7.1 GILT AND GINGERBREAD [BFI] (05/09/1961)
5Sep61
7.2 [--] ITV Play of the Week: +THEN WE FALL (90 min.)
12Sep61 ITV Tue 9:35 pm
ATV Production by H.M. Tennent
Written by Paul Ferris
Directed by Wilfred Eades
Designed by Richard Negri
Starring
William Lucas .......... Mervyn Morris
Sheila Allen ........... Rhiannon Morris
James Maxwell .......... David Pyke
Lloyd Lamble ........... Larsen
Aubrey Richards ........ Ellis Watkins
with:
Rachel Thomas .......... Mrs. Marsh
Olwen Brookes .......... Mrs. Watkins
Tenniel Evans .......... Llewellyn Richards
Arthur Brough .......... J.P. Tozer
Ruthless in achieving his ambitions, Mervyn Morris has np regard
for the feelings of other people, least of all his wife's. But
when the crash comes and all seems lost he finds he needs her
most of all.
7.3 [--] ITV Play of the Week: FARAWAY MUSIC
19Sep61 ITV Tue 9:35-11:05pm
Starring: Isabel Dean, Derek Farr
7.4 [--] ITV Play of the Week: +BARCHESTER TOWERS [ITN Source]
26Sep61 ITV Tue
Granada Television Production
7.5 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THINKING OF MY DARLING
03Oct61 ITV Tue 9:35-11:05pm
Starring: Jacqueline Ellis
7.6 [--] 10Oct61 no play - ITV stations showed films
7.7 A HOUSE OF STRANGERS [BFI] (17/10/1961)
17Oct61
7.8 PLAY OF THE WEEK + (SERGEANT MUSGRAVE'S DANCE) [ITN Source] [BFI]
24oct61
7.9 [--] ITV Play of the Week: +A DOLL'S HOUSE [BFI]
31Oct61 ITV Tue
Cast:
Kenneth Griffith ......cast member
7.10 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE CANDIDATE
07Nov61 ITV Tue 9:35pm-11:05pm (possibly postponed from 10Oct61)
ATV Production
Written by John Bowen
Starring:
Alec Clunes,
Brenda Bruce
Beatrix Lehmann
James Glover
Thorley Walters
7.11 [--] ITV Play of the Week: JOKER'S JUSTICE [BFI]
14Nov61 ITV Tue 9:35pm-11:05pm
Written by Jerry C. McNeely
Starring: Leo McKern
7.12 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE TWO ON THE BEACH (90 min) [BFI]
21Nov61 ITV Tue 9:35pm-11:05pm
Anglia Television Production
Written by, N.J. Crisp
Director, Tania Lieven
Designer, Frank Gillman
Cast:
Marjorie WestonJAMESON, Pauline
Edward WestonBERNARD, Carl
Dennis WestonSHERWIN, Derrick
Jimmy WestonHOLDER, Roy
Mr GraceyFRANCIS, Derek
Penny GraceyADAMS, Polly
Mrs PearsonHICKSON, Joan
Mrs OsborneMERRALL, Mary
PhyllisDELAMAIN, Aimée
Mrs FarmerBARRY, Hilda
BarnesJONES, Dudley
BillHAWKINS, Peter
receptionistBRAID, Hilda
7.13 [--] ITV Play of the Week: WHITEMAN
28Nov61 ITV Tue 9:35-11:05pm
Written by Michael Picardie
Starring: Paul Rogers, Diana Beevers
7.14 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE WHISPERERS
5Dec61 ITV Tue 9:35-11:05pm
Starring: Nora Nicholson, Paul Curran
7.15 [--] ITV Play of the Week: + THE WILD DUCK (90 min) [BFI]
12Dec61
Filmed at Shepperton Studios on 35mm as a
way round the ITV actors strike.
Associated-Rediffusion Presentation
Produced by John Clements
Adapted by Max Faber from the story by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Charles Chrichton
Photographed by Walter S. Harvey
Starring:
Emlyn Williams, Dorothy Tutin, Angela Baddeley, George Relph,
Michael Gough
Synopsis:
This human and absorbing story tells of what can happen when a
well meaning idealist insists on revealing the truth to his
greatest friend.
7.16 [- -] ITV Play of the Week: THE VISITORS [ITN Source] [BFI]
19-Dec-1961 ITV Tue 9:35-11:05pm
Starring:
Mary Morris
Peter Dyneley
Neil McCallum
Leslie French
[--] 26Dec61 - "Svengali" (1954 film)(networked)
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5 months actors strike - circa Jan62-May 62
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(6May62 first "Armchair Theatre" after actors strike)
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Emergency Ward - Ten returned 08May62
7.17 [--] 8May62 - no play [Times Archive]
7.18 [--] ITV Play of the Week: MURDER IN SHORTHAND
[BFI] [Verified -The Viewer]
(first play after the actors strike)
15-May-1962 ITV Tue 9:15-10:45pm
Associated-Rediffusion Production
Written by ??
Directed by Peter Graham Scott
Starring:
David Davies ..... Det. Insp. Martin
Oliver Reed ...... David
Vanda Godsell .... Mrs Bone
With:
Evelyn Kerry ..... Mrs. Vale
Robert James ..... Eustace Catar
Synopsis:
Dusk. Rain pours down the windows. An occasional car passes. The wrinkled hand
of an old woman inches its way
painfully along a window ledge, fingers hunching into a claw to pull the
unwilling palm a little nearer to its objective
- the dial of a telephone.
7.19 [--] ITV Play of the Week: +A PERFECT WOMAN
22May62 ITV Tue 9:15-10:45pm (90 min slot)
Starring: Joan Heal
7.20 [--] ITV Play of the Week: +THE DOOR [BFI]
29May62 ITV Tue
Anglia Television Production
Directed by George More O'Ferrall
7.21 PLAY OF THE WEEK +(YOU IN YOUR SMALL CORNER) [ITN Source] [BFI]
Granada Television
05Jun62
Written by Barry Reckord
Synopsis:
Story about the relationship between a young middle-class West Indian
and his white, working-class girlfriend.
7.22 [--] ITV Play of the Week: +SOME OTHER LOVE
ITV tx 12/6/1962
Cast:
Maxine Audley ......Laura Cole
7.23 [--] ITV Play of the Week: +I DON'T LIKE YOU (90 min)
19Jun62 ITV Tue 9:15 pm
ATV Production by H.M. Tennent
Written by Leo Lehman
Directed by Graham Evans
Starring:
Wendy Craig .......... Miss Tomkin
Nigel Davenport ...... Mr. Barr
Patricia Collier ..... Mrs. Lee
with:
Ewan Roberts ......... Mr. Lambert
Tenniel Evans ........ Mr. Chadwick
Miss Tomkin and Mr. Lee cannot bear their fellow schoolteacher
Mr. Barr, but when he turns up in Italy, where they are on
holiday, Miss Tomkin's feelings change drastically.
(Patricia Collier appears by permission of The Governors of
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon)
7.24 [--] ITV Play of the Week: + LEAN LIBERTY (90 min) [BFI]
26Jun62 ITV Tue 9:15 pm
Associated-Rediffusion production
(details in TTT "The Viewer")
7.25 [--] ITV Play of the Week: MY THREE ANGELS
3Jul62 ITV Tue 9:15-10:45pm
7.26 [--] ITV Play of the Week: + ROUGH JUSTICE [BFI]
10Jul62 ITV Tue
Anglia Television Production
Directed by George More O'Ferrall
7.27 [--] ITV Play of the Week: + THE WEEK-ENDERS
17Jul62 ITV Tue
ATV Production
7.28 [--] ITV Play of the Week: +A RIGHTEOUS WOMAN
24Jul62 ITV Tue
Cast:
Phyllis Calvert ........ Ruth Lessing
7.29 [--] ITV Play of the Week: BIRDS IN THE WILDERNESS
31Jul62 ITV Tue 9:15-10:45pm
Starring: Zena Walker, Bill Owen
7.30 [--] ITV Play of the Week: COACH 7, SEAT 15
07Aug62 ITV Tue 9:15-10:45pm
Starring: George Benson, Jean Kent
7.31 [--] ITV Play of the Week: MIRACLE ON MANO
14Aug62 ITV Tue 9:15-10:45pm
Starring: Patrick Magee
7.32 [--] ITV Play of the Week: +THE CASUALTIES [BFI] (TV Times Cover)
21Aug62
Cast:
Ruth Dunning
Jack Smethurst
7.33 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE LARK
28Aug62 ITV Tue 9:15-10:45pm
########### ITV Play Of The Week #############
############# end of season 7 ################
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