CTVA UK - "ITV Play Of The Week" (ITV) Season 10 (1964-65)

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UK Taped/Live Drama series
ITV Play of the Week (1955-67)  -  ITV Television Playhouse (1956-67)   -  ITV Playhouse (1967-83)
ABC Armchair Theatre (1956-68)     ATV Theatre 70 (1960) / Drama '61 -'67 (1960-67)
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(Mainly 90 min. Plays)
Season 10 (1964-65)
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 10 1964-65 ##############
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ITV Network Mondays 9:10-10:30pm (80 min slot)

10.1 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE OTHER MAN (imdb have this as solo entry)
(according to imdb - running time = 150 min 2 parter)
07Sep64 ITV Mon - Part 1: 8:00-8:50pm / Part 2: 9:05-10:35pm
Granada Television Production
Credited cast:
Michael Caine .... George Grant
Siān Phillips .... Kate Grant
John Thaw .... Henry Potter
Peter Dyneley .... Maj. Ritter
Nigel Green .... CSM Blackman
William Kendall .... Maj. Norriss
Godfrey Quigley .... Paddy Ryan
Vladek Sheybal .... Klaus


10.2 [--] ITV Play of the Week: +THE WIFE OF KNIGHTSBRIDGE
14Sep64
Anglia Production


10.3 [--] ITV Play of the Week: (title not given in Times Archive)
21Sep64 ITV Mon 9:10-10:30pm (80 min slot)

[--] series? THE CLOSE PRISONER (1964) (TV) (60min - is this ? Television Playhouse?)
21Sep64 Monday (imdb)
Produced by Stuart Burge
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Written by Clive Exton
Genre: Drama
Cast (in alphabetical order)
Norman Bird
Bernard Cribbins
Michael Gwynn
Dandy Nichols
Sheila Steafel

10.4 [--] ITV Play of the Week: (title not given in Times Archive)
28Sep64 ITV Mon 9:45-11:10 (85 min slot)


10.5 [--] ITV Play of the Week: GOODNIGHT TO HEROES [Times Archive]
05Oct64 ITV Mon 9:45-11:10pm (85 min slot)

[--] ITV Play of the Week: "Come Back Little Sheba"
05Oct64 ITV Mon (see #10.27 - 8 march65) (possibly postponed)
Anglia Television Production

[--] 12Oct64 ITV Mon pre-empted by "Olympics"


10.7 [--] ITV Play of the Week: UNDERCURRENT
19Oct64 ITV Mon 9:10-10:30pm (80 min slot)

10.8 [--] ITV Play of the Week: A REALLY GOOD JAZZ PIANO
26Oct64 ITV Mon 9:20-10:40pm (70 min slot)

10.9 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE SOUND OF MURDER [BFI have wrong date]
02Nov64 ITV Mon 9:10-10:30pm (80 min slot)
Anglia Production (to be verified)

[--] 09Nov64 ITV Mon pre-empted by "Boxing"


10.11 [--] ITV Play of the Week: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (TV Times Cover)
Rediffusion Production
16-Nov-1964 ITV Monday (pt 1) 8:00-8:55pm (pt 2) 9:10-10:30pm (15 minute interval for the ITN News 8:55-9:10pm)
(broadcast in the US on "NET Playhouse" 19May1967 NYC WNDT-13)
Cast:
Patrick Wymark ..... Porfiry
Douglas Wilmer
Julia Foster
Peter Bowles
David Collins
Neville Jason ....... Zamyotov
Synopsis:
Dramatization of Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" by Stanley Miller. Described by Dostoyevsky as "the whole
psychological process of crime," the story deals with a poor young Russian student who feels justified in killing
an evil old woman money-lender and her sister. The story is concentrated on the student's punishment, his nightmarish
visions of his crime and the agony he suffers as a cat-and-mouse struggle develops between him and a relentless police
investigator.


10.12 The BACHELORS [BFI] (23/11/1964)
23Nov64

10.13 [--] ITV Play of the Week: TARNISH ON A GOLDEN BOY
30Nov64 ITV Mon 9:10-10:30pm (80 min slot)

10.14 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE RULES THAT JACK MADE
07Dec64 ITV Mon 9:10-10:30pm (80 min slot)

10.15 [--] ITV Play of the Week: + DRILL PIG (definitely Play of the Week)
14Dec64 ITV Mon 9:10-10:30pm (80 min. slot)
Written by Charles Wood
Directed by John Hale
Starring
Lee Montague
Patsy Rowlands
Avis Bunnage
John Bluthal
Harry Locke
Ronald Lacey
Guest Star:
Donald Houston as the Narrator
ATV Production
(full details in "The Viewer")

10.16 [--] No Hiding Place?: Comedy Special: DEEP AND CRISP AND STOLEN [BFI] (21/12/1964)
21Dec64 ITV Mon 9:10-10:40pm (90 min slot)

10.17 [--] ITV Play of the Week: + THE RISE AND FALL OF NELLIE BROWN [BFI]
28Dec64 ITV Mon
Anglia Television Production
Cast:
Elisabeth Welch (legendary singer)


10.18 [--] ITV Play of the Week  BLOOD & THUNDER: THE CHANGELING [ITN]
04-Jan-1965 ITV Mon
Granada Production

10.19 [--] ITV Play of the Week BLOOD & THUNDER:  WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN [ITN]
11-Jan-1965 ITV Mon
Granada Production / Prod. ID: 1/0023/0101 / Programme ID: 1/0023
Produced by PHILIP MACKIE / Directed by Gordon FLEMYNG
Adapted by - PHILIP MACKIE / Author - THOMAS MIDDLETON
Act 1 - Seduction
Act 2 - Corruption
Act 3 - Death.
Cast:
CLIFFORD EVANS - Brent Davies
GENE ANDERSON - Brian Dally
DIANA RIGG - Muriel Roberts
LAURENCE PAYNE - Anna Stewart
BILL GAUNT - Margaret Gazeley
MICHAEL BARRINGTON - Carmen Lo Moro
GODFREY QUIGLEY - Anna Nelson
DEREK NEWARK - Frances Brozel
DOROTHY EDWARDS - John Henshaw
ERIC DODSON - Pat Jennings
KARIH FERNALD - Muriel Ferguson
MICHAEL BLACKHAM - Athene Fielding
DEREK WARE - Warren J Clarke
ADAM ROWNTREE - Jack Grieve
PETER MCCANN - Laura Wilde
PAULINE WINGFIELD - Julie Perry
IONA MACRAE - Lillian Redfern
KENNETH NASH - Geirge Hollingsworth
CLIVE MARSHALL
MARTIN DOBSON
MICHAEL BURCHILL
MAX RAWNSLEY
MALCOLM DOUGLAS
SCOTT ROBERTS
Eight corpses, it's real blood and thunder, love, lust and killings.

10.20 [--] ITV Play of the Week: A TANK OF FISH
18Jan65 ITV Mon 9:10-10:30pm (80 min slot)
Starring:
Milo O'Shea, Davy Kaye

10.21 The IMAGE [BFI] (25/01/1965)
25Jan65

10.22 GIANTS ON SATURDAY [BFI] (01/02/1965)
1Feb65

10.23 [--] ITV Play of the Week: NO BABY, NO BABY AT ALL [BFI]
8Feb65 ITV Mon
Executive Producer Antony Kearey
Directed by John Frankau
Written by Desmond Lowden
Genre: Drama
Cast (in alphabetical order)
Jane Baxter .... Angela Asher
Jeremy Burnham .... Mr. Cromwell
Barbara Cavan .... Mrs. Dane
Helen Cotterill .... Cashier
Betty England .... Mrs. Saunders
Gretchen Franklin .... Mrs. Morton
Malcolm Patton .... Coffee bar attendant
Richard Vernon .... Tom Asher
Hazel Williams .... Jane Ambler
Anneke Wills .... Chris Durley
Leonard Woodrow .... The man

10.24 [--] ITV Play of the Week: + THE RULES OF THE GAME [BFI] (TV Times Cover)
15Feb65 ITV Mon 9:40-11:00pm
Starring:
Anthony Quayle
Gwen Watford
Peter Wyngarde

10.25 [--] ITV Play of the Week: AN ASPIDISTRA IN BABYLON (Kaleidoscope- Single Play)
A-R Production
22Feb65 ITV Monday


10.26 The FALL OF THE SPARROW [BFI] (01/03/1965)
1Mar65

10.27 [--] ITV Play of the Week: COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA (see #10.5)
8Mar65 ITV Mon 9:40-11:00pm [verified-Times Archive]
IMDB list this date (possibly a repeat/ or postponed from 5Oct64)
Written by William Inge

10.28 [--] ITV Play of the Week: A FEARFUL THING (BFI)
15-Mar-65 ITV Mon 9:40-11:05 (85 min slot)
Starring:
Anthony Quayle

10.29 [--] ITV Play of the Week: I REMEMBER THE BATTLE
22Mar65 ITV Mon 9:40-10:40pm (60 min slot)
Starring:
Patrick Wymark

10.30 29Mar65 - pre-empted - "Boxing" (Play of the Week maybe on another day)

10.31 FINESSE IN DIAMONDS [BFI] (05/04/1965)
5Apr65 Mon 9:40-10:40pm
Starring:
Nigel Davenport

10.32 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THICK AS OLD TIMBER [BFI]
12Apr65 ITV Mon 9:40-10:40pm (60 min slot)
ATV Production
Produced by Cecil Clarke [BFI] / Produced by Peter Graham Scott [IMDB]
Written by Douglas Livingstone
Directed by John Nelson-Burton
Cast:
Ronald Fraser ... George Timber- Wood
Patrick Newell ... Cyril
Margaret Tyzack

10.33 [--] ITV Play of the Week: WE THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO BE CAESAR (Kaleidoscope- Single Play)
[verified-David Moore]
Rediffusion Production
19 April 1965 Monday 9.40pm
Script: David Adam
Designer: John Clements
Director: Peter Moffatt
Cast:
Jill Bennett... Marjorie Wilton
Gerald Flood... Kenneth Wilton
Peter Butterworth... Ernest Rogers
Derek Francis... Major Black
Denzil Ellis... Police sergeant
Kenneth and Marjorie were playing their own private game- or was it a game?
Events took a more serious turn, though, when British Railways came into it and
brought sudden death. [verified-David Moore]


10.34 [--] ITV Play of the Week: + GOODBYE JOHNNY / aka GOODBYE JOHNNIE [BFI] (26/04/1965)
26Apr65 ITV Mon
Anglia Television Production
Harmonica Music, Larry Adler

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10.35 [--] PLAY OF THE WEEK (THE EDWARDIANS #1: +THE WALLS OF JERICHO) [ITN]
03-May-1965
Granada Production

10.36 [--] PLAY OF THE WEEK (THE EDWARDIANS #2: +MID CHANNEL) [ITN]
10-May-1965
Granada Production

10.37 [--] PLAY OF THE WEEK (THE EDWARDIANS #3: +OLIVE LATIMER'S HUSBAND) [ITN]
17-May-1965
Granada Production

10.38 [--] PLAY OF THE WEEK (THE EDWARDIANS #4: +THE MADRAS HOUSE) [ITN]
24-May-1965
Granada Production


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10.39 [--] JOHN PADDINGTON [BFI] (31/05/1965)
31May65 - no details

10.40 [--] ITV Play of the Week: BEAUTIFUL FOREVER
07Jun65 Whit Monday 9:40-11:00pm (80 min. slot)
Rediffusion Production
executive producer Antony Kearey
written by Bridget Boland
directed by David Boisseau
designer John Clements
starring
Dulcie Gray
Ellen Pollock
with Peter Bayliss


10.41 [--] ITV Play of the Week: A COUPLE OF DRY MARTINIS [Times Archive]
14Jun65 ITV Mon 9:40-10:45pm (65 min slot)
Starring: Alan Badel, Wendy Craig, Nyree Dawn Porter
*
Anglia Television Production ?
Cast: (TV Times Cover)
Eva Bartok ?


10.42 [--] ITV Play of the Week: * THE MISUNDERSTANDING [IMDB error - list this as Television Playhouse]
21Jun65 ITV Mon
Associated-Rediffusion
Writer: Kitty Black / Novel: Albert Camus / Director: Joan Kemp-Welch
Cast:-
FLORA ROBSON
EWAN HOOPER
RUTH MEYERS
PAULINE MUNRO
PATRICK TROUGHTON
Period drama. A man returns home (after being away for more than twenty years)
and doesn't reveal his identity, his family though embark on a plot to murder him.

10.43 The DEATH OF BESSIE SMITH [BFI/ITN] (28/06/1965) (imdb have solo entry)
28Jun65 ITV Mon
Granada Production
Script: Edward Albee
Designer: Ray Stonehouse
Director: Juliam Amyes
Patricia English... The Nurse
Earl Cameron... Jack
Harold Scott... The Orderly
Robert Ayres... The Father
Donald Sutherland... The Intern
Janna Hill... Second Nurse
(info - David Moore - dino discs)


10.44 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE AMERICAN DREAM [BFI/ITN]
05Jul65 ITV Mon (9:40-11:00pm)(80 min slot)(definitely Play of the Week)
Granada Television Production
ProducerAMYES, Julian
DirectorALMOND, Paul
ScriptALBEE, Edward
DesignerPHILLIPS, Peter
Cast:
GrandmaNESBITT, Cathleen
MommyMORRIS, Libby
DaddyBROWN, Phil
Mrs. BarkerHORTON, Helen
The Young ManDAVIES, Brian



10.45 [--] ITV Play of the Week: +WINTER IN ISCHIA [BFI]
12Jul65 ITV Mon
Anglia Production


10.46 [--] ITV Play of the Week: * BETWEEN THE TWO OF US
19Jul65 ITV Mon (9:40-11:00pm)(80 min slot)
ATV Network Production
Producer: Cecil Clarke
Writer: Rhys Adrian
Director: Graham Evans
Cast:-
LEONARD ROSSITER as The Man
ANGELA CROWE as The Woman

Drama. A mismatched couple meet up and each time end up arguing. Gerald Lamer
in The Guardian wrote "...What the play certainly did provide was the
opportunity for some brilliant acting by Leonard Rossiter as the man whose
embarrassment was transferred from him to us with painful accuracy."

10.47 [--] ITV Play of the Week: AS THE CROW FLIES [BFI]
26Jul65 ITV Mon 9:40-11:00pm (80 min slot)

10.48 WHEN THE WIND BLOWS [BFI] (02/08/1965)
2Aug65

10.49 [--] ITV Play of the Week: HELEN AND EDWARD AND HENRY
09Aug65 ITV Mon 9:40-11:00pm (80 min slot)


10.50 [--] PLAY OF THE WEEK + (THE WAY OF ALL FLESH) [ITN]
16-Aug-1965 ITV Mon
Granada Production

10.51 [--] ITV Play of the Week: THEIR OBEDIENT SERVANTS
23Aug65 ITV Mon 9:40-10:40pm (60 min slot)

10.52 [--]  30Aug65 - August Bank Holiday - no play

########### ITV Play Of The Week #############
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