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ITV Play of the Week
Episode Guide - January 2006
compiled by
The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:
references:
TV Times/ The Viewer
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com)
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ITV PLAY OF THE WEEK (1956-68)
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Rotating contributions by:
Associated Rediffusion (Rediffusion from 1964)
Associated TeleVision (ATV)
Granada Television
plus occasional contributions from smaller ITV companies
for the
ITV network  (Tuesdays  8.30-10.00pm then 9:35-11.05 pm  )

UK Dramatic Anthology  series 1956-circa1967  (number of plays ?)  x  90 min 

Episode List on IMDB

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Mondays

[--] ITV Play of the Week: ONE (90 min)
16Apr56 ITV Mon
Associated-Rediffusion Production
Writer: John Letts / Novel: David Karp /
Special Effects: Edward Shankster /
Director: Peter Graham Scott
Cast:
Conger.............. JACK MAY
Miss Allam.......... RUTH TROUNCER
Wright.............. KENNETH HYDE
Burden............. DONALD PLEASENCE
Wilkin........... JONATHAN MEDDINGS
Lark............... KENNETH GRIFFITHS
Victor................ JOHN WOODNUTT

Scifi drama. In a society of the future where the people live robot like
lives, one such person begins to learn to think for himself.




[--] (series?): NO OTHER VERDICT
18Apr56 ITV Wed
A-R


[--] ITV Play of the Week ?? : REBECCA
16Jul56 ITV Mon
ATV Production




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THE LAST ENEMY

Associated-Rediffusion / 1x90m-e / 1956 black and white

Writer: Richard Hillary / Producer/Director: Peter Graham-Scott

Drama. A pilot, during the Battle of Britain, tries to come to terms with his situation.

With:- PETER MURRAY / JOHN ROBINSON / PATRICK DRISCOLL / TARN BASSETT



[--] ???? : LOOK BACK IN ANGER
28Nov56 ITV Wed
Granada Television Production



[--] The Tuesday Play: THE BLACK JUDGE
12Feb57 ITV Tue 8.30
Associated-Rediffusion
from a play by Michael Hutton Squire
adapted by Juan Cortez and John Letts
directed by Cyril Coke
settings designed by Betty Pierce
starring
Donald Wolfit ........ Judge Dee
Laurence Payne
Betty McDowell
Alfred Burke


[--] ITV Play of the Week: GERTIE MAUDE (90 min)
13Feb57 ITV Wed 8.0
Associated-Rediffusion Production
written by John Van Druten
adapted by Ken Hoare
directed by Cyril Butcher
settings designed by John Clements
starring
June Thorburn ........ Gertie Maude
Peter Murray ......... Will Heatley
Jill Dixon ........... Doris
with
Carol Wolveridge ..... Sheila
Mignon O'Doherty ..... Mrs Bessey
Frederick Piper ...... Mr Malkin
Roma Denville ........ Phyllis Trenholm
Peter Gray ........... "Rags" Catwright
The year: 1911. The scenes: a stately London house; a musical
comedy theatre; a discreet flat. The principle character:
Gertie Maude, a chorus girl who is deeply in love with a young
aristocrat. When love turns to tragedy it touches the lives
and hearts of all who knew her.
(June Thorburn and Jill Dixon appear by permission of
The Rank Organisation)


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ITV Network Wednesdays

[--] ITV Play of the Week: DEATH OF A SALESMAN
27Nov57 ITV Wed
Granada Television Production



[--] ITV Play of the Week: MYSELF WHEN YOUNG (90 min)
26Feb58 ITV Wed 9pm
Associated-Rediffusion production
starring
Dennis Price
Maxine Audley
Zena Walker

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE ROSSITERS (90 min)
12Mar58 ITV Wed 9pm
ATV
play written by Keneth Hyde
adapted for television by Peter Key
directed by Cyril Coke
starring
Sarah Lawson ......... Elizabeth Rossiter
Laurence Payne ....... Peter Rossiter
Melissa Stribling .... Honer Rossiter
(full details in TV Times - Scottish edition)

[--] ITV Play of the Week: ALL MY SONS (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

[--] ITV Play of the Week: DISTURBANCE
04Jun58 ITV Wed
Associated-Rediffusion production


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


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


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

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[--] ITV Play of the Week: DINNER WITH THE FAMILY (90 min.)
(Production Company Not Known)
15Oct58 ITV Tue 9:15 pm
Directed by Peter Wood
Starring
Donald Sinden
Denholm Elliott
Irene Browne
Judith Scott
Laurance Hardy
Jack MacGowran
Gwen Watford
(full details in TV Times)

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE BIG KNIFE
30Dec58 ITV Tue
Associated-Rediffusion production


[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE KILLING OF THE KING (90 min)
27Jan59 ITV Tue 8:30 pm
Associated-Rediffusion production
Written by Hugh Ross Williamson
Directed by Ronald Marriott
Settings by John Clements
Starring
Paul Rogers
John Phillips
Basil Dignam
with
Edgar Wreford
(full details in The Viewer)


[--] 03/17/24Feb59 - no details


[--] ITV Play of the Week: PARNELL
10Feb59 ITV Tue
Associated-Rediffusion production


[--] 3/10Mar59

[--] Play of the Week: THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH (90 min)(TV Times Cover)
17Mar59 ITV Tue 8.30 pm
starring
Vivien Leigh

[--] 24Mar59 - no details

[--] Play of the Week: A DAY BY THE SEA (90 min)
31Mar59 ITV Tue 8:30 pm
ATV Production by H.M. Tennent
Written by N. C. Hunter
Adapted for television by Lionel Harris
Directed by Lionel Harris
starring
John Gielgud ............. Julian Anson
Margaret Leighton ........ Frances Farrar
Gladys Cooper ............ Laura Anson
Roger Livesey ............ Dr. Farley
Alan Webb ................ Humphrey Caldwell
Megs Jenkins ............. Miss Mathieson
with
Nicholas Hannen .......... David Anson
Frederick Piper .......... William Gregson
also
Hugh Janes ............... Toby Eddison
Lesley Dudley ............ Elinor Eddison
Gillian Hume ............. Maid
"Why talk of fault and blame? We have lived as we have because
we are the people we are ...." This quotation by the author of
this play can apply to almost every family who can see themselves
refelcted in Laura Anson and her family circle.

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[--] Play of the Week: MR. ARCULARIS (90 min.)
08Sep59, ITV Tue 8:30 pm
Associated-Rediffusion Production
written by Conrad Aiken
Adapted for television by Ken Hoare
Directed by Robert Tronson
Designed by John Clements
Music Arranged by Ron Grainer
Starring:
Robert Eddison as Mr. Arcularis
Virginia Maskell as Nurse Snell
(details in "The Viewer")


[--] Play of the Week: THE CRUCIBLE (90 min.)
03Nov59, ITV Tue 9:35 pm
Granada Production
Written by Arthur Miller
Directed by Henry Kaplan
starring
Sean Connery ............. John Proctor
Barbara Chilcott ......... Elizabeth Proctor
Noel Willman ............. Danforth
Susannah York ............ Abigail Williams

[--] 10/17Nov59 - no details

[--] ITV Play of the Week: SOUTH (90 min)
24Nov59 ITV Tue 9:35pm
Production Company No
starring
Peter Wyngarde
(full details in TV Times-Shirley Bassey cover)

[--] 1/8/15/22/29Dec59 - no details


[--] ITV Play of the Week: SWEET POISON (90min)
Anglia TV production
15th or 22nd December 1959, ITV Tues 9.35 pm
starring
Dawn Addams
John Ireland
Sandra Dorne ... Billie

Anglia TV's first major TV drama networked nationally. They
considered it quite a scoop starwise and there was a signed colour photo of
Dawn Addams (in costume, including blonde wig) in the foyer of the studios
in Norwich for some years.

[--] ITV Play of the Week: IN SEARCH OF HAPPINESS (90 min)
19Jan60 ITV Tue 9:35 pm

[--] ITV Play of the Week: CARRINGTON V.C. (90 min)
26Jan60 ITV Tue 9:35 pm
Starring:
Ann Todd
Richard Todd
Dorothy Tutin


[--] ITV Play of the Week: A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (90 min)
09Feb60 ITV Tue 9:35 pm
Associated-Rediffusion Production
(full details in TV Times)

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
22Mar60 ITV Tue
Associated-Rediffusion Production

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE GREEN PACK
03May60 ITV Tue
Associated-Rediffusion Production

[--] ITV Play of the Week: LUCKY STRIKE
31May60 ITV Tue
Anglia Television Production


[--] ITV Play of the Week: NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT (90 min)
14Jun1960, ITV Tuesday
Associated-Rediffusion Production
Writer: Giles Cooper
Novel: John Lymington
Director: Cyril Coke
Cast:
Richard................ LEE MONTAGUE
Patricia............... MELISSA STRIBLING
Frankie................. SALLY BAZELY
Corporal Pearce........ BERNARD CRIBBINS
Sir James Murray....... BERNARD ARCHARD
Scifi drama. Strange maggot like alien creatures plot to take a village
on Salisbury Plain during a intensive heat wave.

[--] ITV Play of the Week: TESS
05Jul60 ITV Tue
Associated-Rediffusion Production

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[--] Play of the Week: DEAR DELINQUENT (90 min)
Associated-Rediffusion Production
23Aug60 ITV Tue 9:35 pm
(full details in "TV Times")

[--] Play of the Week: GASLIGHT (90 min)
Anglia production networked by Association-Redffusion
20Sep60 ITV Tue 9.35pm
Written by Patrick Hamilton
Directed by George More O'Ferrall
Designer Reece Pemberton
starring
Margaret Leighton
Louis Jourdan
- synopsis - see TTT book page 47

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE BURNING GLASS (90 min)
04Oct60 ITV Tue
Associated-Rediffusion
Writer:Elizabeth Lincoln / Play: Charles Morgan
Director: David Boisseau
Scifi drama. A Restaging of the 1956 ITV "Television Playhouse" play .
Michael Atkinson ........ Christopher Terriford
Daphne Slater ........... Mary Terriford
Anthony Nelands ......... Tony Locke
Roger Livesey ........... Montague Winthropp

[--] Play of the Week: TIGER AT THE GATES (90 min. slot)
Granada Television production
(cover of TV Times)
25Oct60 ITV Tue 9:35pm
VTR
p/d: Paul Almond,
sc: Jean Giraudoux
trans: Christopher Fry; adapt:William Bast;
design: Seamus Flannery;
Cast:
Keith Michell, Carole Lesley, Charles Gray, Veronica Turleigh,
Barbara Chilcott, Jeanette Sterke.

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE FAMILY FIRST (90 min)
8Nov60 ITV Tue 9:35 pm
ATV Production in association with H.M. Tennent
Play Witten by Hjalmar Bergman
Adapted for Television by William Redmond
Based on an English Version by Phylis Hartnoll
Directed by Lionel Harris
Designed by Michael Weight
Starring
Roger Livesey
Joyce Carey
George Rose
and
James Cairncross
Patricia Routledge

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE SILVER WHISTLE (90 min)
22Nov60 ITV Tue 9:35 pm
Granada Production
Produced by Warren Jenkins
Adapted by Robert McEnroe from his play of the same title
Directed by Alan Cooke
Designed by Seamus Flannery
Starring:
Peter Jones as Oliver Erwenter
(details in TV Times)

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE ACCOMPLICES (90 min)
06Dec60 ITV Tue 9.35pm
ATV Production
Producer: Peter Potter
Writer: Paul Lee / Design: Patrick Robertson /
Cast:
ANGELA BADDELEY / RENEE ASHERSON / MARGOT VAN DER BURGH / IAIN CUTHBERTSON
ALAN MacNAUGHTON / GARETH DAVIES
Drama. Police seek information following the death of a woman but certain
people have something to hide.



[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE HAPPY MAN
13Dec60 ITV Tue
Anglia Television Production


[--] Play of the Week: RING OF TRUTH (90 min)
Granada Television production
17Jan61 ITV Tue 9:35 pm
Play Written by Wynyard Browne
Directed for television by Gerald Savory
Starring:
Jill Bennett
Lyndon Brook
with
Peter Reynolds
George Benson
Campbell Singer



[--] Play of the Week: A SPRING OF LOVE (90 min)
ATV Production in association with H.M. Tennent
31Jan61 ITV Tue 9:35 pm
Adapted by G.C. Brown
From the Book by Celia Dale
Directed by Tony Robertson
starring
John Neville ........... Raymond Banks
Angela Baddeley ........ Gran
Sylvia Kay ............. Esther Wilson
with:
Gladys Henson
Renny Lister
Arthur Hewlett
What is it about Raymond Banks that creates a feeling of
suspicion in all except Esther and Gran who love him?


[--] 7/14/21 Feb61 - no details

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE POISONED EARTH (90 min)
ATV Production in association with H.M. TennEnt
28Feb61 ITV Tue 9:35 pm
Written by Arden Winch
Directed by Casper Wrede
Design: Richard Negri
starring
MICHAEL GOUGH as Rev Claude Bell
FREDERICK BARTMAN as James Whittier
JOSEPH FURST as Dr Brockmeyer
STRATFORD JOHNS as Insp Matthews
BARRY KEEGAN as Len Beckett
JACK MAY as Barratt
J.G. Devlin
James Maxwell
Scifi drama. A protest group attach themselves to the site where a new
atomic bomb is being tested.

[--] Play of the Week: MISS TREEVES (90 min.)
Associated-Rediffusion Production
2May61 ITV Tue 9:35 pm
Written by NOT KNOWN
Directed by Mark Lawton
Starring
Pamela Brown
Neil McCallum
With
Ronald Adam
Jack Allen
Jenny Laird
Catherine Woodville
(Details in TV Times)


[--] Play of the Week: SOLDIER IN THE SNOW (90 min.)
Granada Production
9May61 ITV Tue 9:35 pm
Written by James Mitchell / Adapted by John Hearne
Directed by John Moxey
(Details in TV Times)


[--] ITV Play of the Week: FAIRY TALES OF NEW YORK (90 min.)
06Jun1961 ITV Tue 9:35 pm
Granada Production
Written by J.P. Donleavy
Directed by Graham Evans
Designed by William Brodie
Starring:
Robert Stephens ........ Cornelius Christian
with:
Alan Gifford
Lionel Murton
Harry Towb
James Cairncross
Milo O'Shea
Judith Conrow
Synopsis:
The weird and wonderful adventures of Cornelius Christian -
an innocent in New York


[--] ITV Play of the Week: COUNTDOWN AT WOOMERA (90 min.)
13June1961
Associated-Rediffusion Production
Writer: Henry Bentinck
Director: Cyril Coke
Design: Frederick Pusey
Cast:-
NOEL McCALLUM as Robert McKerrill
SYLVIA KAY as Margaret Paisley
JOHN WELSH as Sir Robert Trelevan
PATRICK BARR as General O'Connor
JOHN MILLER as Prime Minister
SciFi drama. In 1968 the first British space flight to the moon is planned.

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE PAPER PALACE (90 min.)
20Jun61 ITV Tue 9:35-11:05pm
ATV Production by H.M. Tennent
(details in TV Times)

[--] ITV Play of the Week: IVANOV
01Aug61 ITV Tue 9:35-11:05pm
Granada Production
(details in the viewer)


[--] ITV Play of the Week: HARRIET
15Aug61 ITV Tue 9:35 pm
ATV Production by H.M. Tennent
(details in the viewer)

[--] ITV Play of the Week: A SHRED OF EVIDENCE
22Aug61 ITV Tue 9:35 pm
Anglia TV Production
(Networked by Associated Rediffusion)
(details in the viewer/TV Times)

[--] ITV Play of the Week: OVER THE BRIDGE
29Aug61 ITV Tue 9:35 pm
Starring:
Finlay Currie


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[--] 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.


[--] ITV Play of the Week: BARCHESTER TOWERS
26Sep61 ITV Tue
Granada Television Production





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5 months ITV actors strike - circa Dec1961 -May 1962

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE WILD DUCK (90 min)
12Dec61 ITV Tue 9:35-11:05pm
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.


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[--] ITV Play of the Week: MURDER IN SHORTHAND
15May62 ITV Tue
Associated-Rediffusion Production


[--] ITV Play of the Week: A PERFECT WOMAN
22May62
(no details)

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE DOOR
29May62 ITV Tue
Anglia Television Production


[--] 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)

[--] ITV Play of the Week: LEAN LIBERTY (90 min)
26Jun62 ITV Tue 9:15 pm
Associated-Rediffusion production
(details in TTT "The Viewer")


[--] ITV Play of the Week: ROUGH JUSTICE
10Jul62 ITV Tue
Anglia Television Production



ITV 'Play of the Week' ALIDA / 1x60m-e / 1962 bw
(if this is 60 min more likely Television Playhouse)

Drama. A young sculptor finds himself becoming obsessed with the sculpted
head of a young girl.


[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE CASUALTIES (TV Times Cover)
21Aug62
Cast:
Ruth Dunning
Jack Smethurst



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[--] Play of the Week: THE GENTLE ASSASSIN
Anglia Television Production
04Sep62 ITV Tue


[--] Play of the Week: THE SECOND CHEF (90 min)
Associated-Rediffusion production
02Oct62 ITV Tue 9:15pm


[--] Play of the Week: WHEN THE KISSING HAD TO STOP (90 min)
Act 1: THE HAMMER
Associated-Rediffusion production
16Oct62 ITV Tue 9:15 pm

[--] Play of the Week: WHEN THE KISSING HAD TO STOP (60 min)
Act 2: THE SICKLE
Associated-Rediffusion production
19Oct62 ITV Frid 9:45 pm
(this was normally the "Television Playhouse" slot)

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[--] Play of the Week: DON JUAN IN HELL (90 min)
Granada Production
06Nov62 ITV Tue 9:15 pm
Written by Bernard Shaw
Designed by Peter Phillips
Directed by Julian Amyes
starring:
Alan Badel ........... Don Juan
Cyril Cusack ......... The Devil
with:
Sian Phillips ........ Dona Ana
A. J. Brown .......... The Statue

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ELECTRA
(Thursday ??? -Television Playhouse????)
Associated-Rediffusion / 1x90m-e / 1962 28 Nov black and white
Producer/Director:Joan Kemp-Welch
A Greek tragedy (performed in the original Greek!).
With:- DIMITRI MALAVETAS / DIMITRI VEAKIS
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[--] ITV Play of the Week: A LETTER FROM THE GENERAL
04Dec62 ITV Tue
Anglia Television

[--] ITV Play of the Week: ALIDA (90 min)
11Dec62 ITV Tue 9:15 pm
ATV Production by H.M. Tennent


[--] ITV Play of the Week: DANGER ZONE (90 min)
22Jan63 ITV Tue
Anglia Television Production

Writer: N. J. Crisp / Director: George More O'Ferrall
Cast:
Harry Brunewald...... OSCAR HOMALKA
Capt Guy............ JOHN SUTTON
Capt Raffan........... ALAN WHITE
Jenny Earl.......... JEANNE MOODY
Bob Fellowes......... WILLIAM SYLVESTER
Margo Robertson...... JEAN MARSH
Scifi drama. Tensions arise on the eve of a nuclear test.

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE BURIED MAN
12Feb63 ITV Tue
(Rediffusion or more likely ATV)
Writer: G. C. Brown / Play: David Mercer / Director: Graham Evans
With:- LEONARD ROSSITER as Robert Bailey
Drama. A typical Mercer piece about madness and set in the 190's which saw
a middle-aged Yorkshire miner, Robert Bailey, trying to find the key to a
happy life but descending into a nervous breakdown. Leonard Rossiter's first
starring role on television, Rossiter had been on TV before but this was
his breakthrough role - he was only cast at short notice when the actor
originally cast fell ill.. Tapes of the production no longer exist.

[--] Play of the Week:
J.B. Priestley Season No. 3: DANGEROUS CORNER (90 min)
Granada Production
19Mar63 ITV Tue 9:15 pm
Adapted for Television by Gerald Savory
Directed by Graeme McDonald
Designed by Michael Grimes
Cast in Order of Appearance:
Pauline Yates ............ Freda Caplan
Julie Christie ........... Betty Whitehead
Joan Sterndale Bennett ... Miss Mockridge
Helen Lindsay ............ Olwen Peel
Terence Longdon .......... Charles Stanton
Tim Seely ................ Gordon Whitehead
William Lucas ............ Robert Caplan
Telling the truth can be dangerous. Robert Caplan ignores
the danger - and as the result of one chance remark has to
watch the false surface of six people's lives being ruthlesly
stripped away

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE SANDCASTLE (90 min)
09Apr63 ITV Tue 9:15 pm
ATV Production by H.M. Tennent
Written by Iris Murdoch
Adapted for Televvision by William Ingrim
Directed by Peter Potter
Settings by Carl Toms
starring
Anna Massey
Michael Gwynn
Rachel Kempson
Charles Carson
(full details in TV Times)


[--] ITV Play of the Week: END OF CONFLICT
23Jul63 ITV Tue
Anglia Television Production


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Mondays

[--] ITV Play of the Week: ACQUIT OR HANG
06Jan64 ITV Mon
Associated-Rediffusion production


[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE ROSE TATOO (90 min. slot)
13Jan64 ITV Monday
Granada Television production
p: Gerald Savory;
d: Paul Almond,
sc: Tennessee Williams,
adapt: Hugh Leonard,
design: Peter Phillips;
Cast:
Katharine Blake, John Drainie, Alex Viespi, Lelia Goldoni,
Libby Morris and Donald Sutherland.
Produced at Granada Television, England. Telecast January 13, 1964.
79 minutes, b/w.


[--] ITV Play of the Week: CAMINO REAL
27Jan64 ITV Monday
Granada Television production

[--] ITV Play of the Week: I CAN WALK WHERE I LIKE CAN'T I?
17Feb64 ITV Mon
ATV Production


[--] ITV Play of the Week: DEVIL IN THE WIND
23Mar64 ITV Mon
Associated-Rediffusion production

[--] ITV Play of the Week: WHERE ARE THEY NOW (90 min)
30Mar64 ITV Mon 9.10pm
Associated-Rediffusion production
written by - no credit
directed by Robert Tronson
cast
George Murcell
Harold Goldblatt
introducing
Annie Ross
- synopsis - see TTT book page 52


[--] ITV Play of the Week: FLIGHT FROM REALITY
13Apr64 ITV Mon
ATV Network Production


[--] ITV Play of the Week: SAMSON BY MOONSHINE
06Jul64 ITV Mon
Associated-Rediffusion Production


[--] A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM (90 min)
Associated-Rediffusion
1964 black and white
Producer/Director: Joan Kemp-Welch
With:-
BENNY HILL as Bottom
PETER WYNGARDE as Oberon
ALFIE BASS
BERNARD BRESSLAW
JILL BENNETT
PATRICK ALLEN
Period comedy. Shakespeare's comedy drama set in the Forest of Arden.


[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE OFFENCE
03Aug64 ITV Mon
Anglia Television Production


[--] A Choice of (Noel) Coward No. 1: PRESENT LAUGHTER
10Aug64 ITV Mon
Granada Television Production

[--] A Choice of (Noel) Coward No. 2: BLITHE SPIRIT
17Aug64 ITV Mon
Granada Television Production

[--] A Choice of (Noel) Coward No. 3: THE VORTEX
24Aug64 ITV Mon
Granada Television Production

[--] A Choice of (Noel) Coward No. 4: THE VORTEX (last)
31Aug64 ITV Mon
Granada Television Production


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ITV Network Mondays

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE OTHER MAN
07Sep64 ITV Mon
Granada Television Production


[--] ITV Play of the Week: COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA
05Oct64 ITV Mon
Anglia Television Production



[--] ITV Play of the Week: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (TV Times Cover)
18Nov64 ITV Mon


[--] ITV Play of the Week: DRILL PIG
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")

[--] ITV Play of the Week: THE RISE AND FALL OF NELLIE BROWN
28Dec64 ITV Mon
Anglia Television Production


[--] ITV Play of the Week:
THE RULES OF THE GAME (title to be checked) (TV Times Cover)
15Feb65 ITV Mon
Cast:
Gwen Watford


[--] ITV Play of the Week: GOODBYE JOHNNY
26Apr65 ITV Mon
Anglia Television Production


[--] 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


[--] ITV Play of the Week: (title??)(TV Times Cover)
12Jun65 ITV
Anglia Television Production ?
Cast:
Eva Bartok

[--] ITV Play of the Week: BETWEEN THE TWO OF US
19Jul65 ITV Mon
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."


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THE MISUNDERSTANDING

Associated-Rediffusion / 1x80m-e / 1965

Writer: Kitty Black / Novel: Albert Camus / Director: Joan Kemp-Welch

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.

Cast:-
FLORA ROBSON
EWAN HOOPER
RUTH MEYERS
PAULINE MUNRO
PATRICK TROUGHTON




########### ITV Play of the Week #############
############# season 11 1965-66 ##############
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11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week:



11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: FOUR DAYS TO FIREWORKS
01Nov65 ITV Mon
Anglia Television Production


11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE CORSICAN BROTHERS (90 min)
08Nov65 ITV Mon
ATV Network Production
Producer: Cecil Clarke
Writer: John Bowen Novel: Alexandre Dumas
Director: John Moxey
Cast:-
ALAN DOBIE as Fabian/Louis
ANN LAWSON as Emile
GERALD HARPER as Chateau
SANDOR ELES as Josef Colonna
MICHAEL BALFOUR as Old Orlando
CLEMENT McCALLIN as Gen Saint-Haye
Period drama. A pair of twin brothers find themselves caught up in a
vendetta in Corsica.

11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: MR. FOWLDS
15Nov65 ITV Mon
ATV Production

11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE RELUCTANT DEBUTANT
Anglia Production
28Feb66

11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE DANCE OF DEATH
07Mar66

11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: NELSON - A STUDY IN MINIATURE
ATV Production
14Mar66

11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: IVANOV
ATV Production
21Mar66

11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: ALL MY LOVING
28Mar66

11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Rediffusion Production
04Apr66

11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE BROWNING VERSION
ATV Production
25Apr66

11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE MOVE AFTER CHECKMATE
Anglia Production
02May66

11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE CRETAN
Granada Production
04Jul66

11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: BLUE AS HIS EYES, THE TIN HELMET HE WORE
Granada Production
18Jul66

11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: AN EXPERIENCE OF EVIL
Granada Production
01Aug66

11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE CLIMBERS
ATV Production
08Aug66

11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: CONVALESCENCE
ATV Production
15Aug66

11.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: YOU'LL KNOW ME BY THE STARS IN MY EYES
Anglia Production
22Aug66


########### ITV Play of the Week #############
############# season 12 1966-67 ##############
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ITV Network Tuesdays

12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: HOME AND BEAUTY
04Oct66 ITV Tue
Rediffusion Production



12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: A CHOICE OF KINGS
11Oct66 ITV Tue
Rediffusion Production


12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: MAJOR BARBARA
18Oct66 ITV Tue
Rediffusion Production


12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE CARETAKER
25Oct66 ITV Tue
Rediffusion Production


12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: DEAR LIAR
Granada Production
01Nov66

12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE NEW MEN
Anglia Production
08Nov66 ITV Tue


12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE EAST WIND
Anglia Production
15Nov66 ITV Tue


12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: END IN TEARS
ATV Production
22Nov66 ITV Tue

12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE TORMENTORS
ATV Production
29Nov66 ITV Tue

12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: A TOT AT THE LOCAL
ATV Production
06Dec66 ITV Tue

12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF
ATV Production
13Dec66 ITV Tue

12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: COME LAUGHING HOME
ATV Production
20Dec66 ITV Tue

12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: JULIE'S GONE
27Dec66 ITV Tue

12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: LOVE ON THE DOLE
17Jan67 ITV Tue
Granada Television Production

12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: CROSSFIRE (60 min????)
07Feb67 ITV Tue
Anglia Television Production
Producer: John Jacobs
Writer: Maurice Edelmann
Cast:-
ERIC PORTMAN / PATRICK BARR / IAN HENDRY / JEANETTE STERK / PETER WYNGARDE
Drama. A distinguished physician gets caught up in the Algerian civil war.

12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: PERSON UNKNOWN
21Mar67 ITV Tue
Anglia Television Production
(Note: 23Mar67 "Reason Unknown" on "Television Playhouse")


12.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: THE TRIAL AND ERROR OF COLONEL WINCHIP
30May67 ITV Tue
Granada Television



########### ITV Play of the Week #############
############# season 13 1967-68 ##############
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(final season before franchise changes)

13.xx [--] ITV Play of the Week: LADY WINDEMERE'S FAN
25Sep67 ITV Tue

NICE TO HAVE YOU BACK
Associated-Rediffusion / 1x75m-e / 1967
Writer: Michael Winder / Design: Fred Pusey / Director: Christoper Hodson
Spy drama. A British agent is released after being held in the East and has trouble adjusting to his old life once gain.
With:- KENNETH HAIGH as Patterson / ANN LYNN / BRYAN WILDE / SUZANNE NEVE


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########### ITV Play of the Week #############
################# the end ##################
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