Light Programme, Drama, 1959
Drama on the BBC Light Programme in 1959
(The Light Programme ran from 1945 to 1967)
The list below is somewhat loosely chosen to try to avoid series more in the sit-com line..
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1st January 1959
21.30-22.00
Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair by Francis Durbridge (1912-1998)
1 of 8— 'The Sitter-In'
Produced by Martyn C. Webster
Paul Temple: Peter Coke
Steve: Marjorie Westbury
Charlie: James Beattie
Sir Graham Forbes: Richard Williams
Inspector Eden: Frederick Treves
Terry Palmer: Peter Wilde
Mary Desmond: June Tobin
Queenie Edwards: Armine Sandford
Madame Flaubert: Catherine Salkeld
Bert Walters: Hadyn Jones
Additional actors in parts 2-8: Jon Farrell, Beatrice Ormonde, Betty Baskcomb, Betty Hardy, David March, David Spenser, Grizelda Hervey, James Thomason, John Bryning, John Graham, John Scott, Richard Hurndall, Rolf Lefebvre, Simon Lack
Weekly, part 8 broadcast on 19th February 1959.
Each 1959 episode was repeated two days later on BBC Home. The next story started on 2nd March 1959.
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2003-2021]
[Also produced by Martyn C Webster from 6th November 1950 with Kim Peacock as Paul Temple]
[There were 21 radio stories about Paul Temple, starting in 1938. Including revisions and new productions but not repeats, there were 27 radio stories, the last new story was 1965.
4th January 1959
16.30-17.00
The Firm of Girdlestone (1890) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), adapted by Norman Edwards.
Dark and dirty deeds and diamonds.
Part 4 of 6.
Producer: Wilfrid Grantham
Cast in parts 2-6:
Arthur Ridley, Baliol Holloway, Bernard Rebel, Catherine Salkeld, Ella Milne, Eric Anderson, Frank Windsor, Frederick Schiller, Hester Paton Brown, John Boddington, Leslie Perrins, Michael Newell, Norman Shelley, Peggy Cameron, Peter Claughton, Peter Halliday, Philip Cunningham, Sulwen Morgan, Susan Richards, Trevor Martin,
Part One was broadcast 14th December 1958.
Weekly- Part 6 was broadcast 18th January 1959.
5th January 1959
19.30-20.00
Test Room Eight by Lester Powell (1912-1993)
3 of 6.
Producer David H Godfrey.
A "Philip Odell" story.
Cast for the series: Beryl Calder, David March, David Spenser, Duncan McIntyre, Edward Jewesbury, Frank Windsor, Frederick Treves, Hamilton Dyce, Hilda Schroder, James Thomason, Jeffrey Segal, John Cazabon, John Hollis, Richard Williams, Robert Beatty, Rolf Lefebvre, Sheila Manahan, Stella Textor, Will Leighton
Part One was broadcast 22nd December 1958.
Weekly, part 6 was broadcast 26th January 1959
[Series repeated commencing 28th July 1959]
[Also repeated on R4X 2024]
25th January 1959
16.30-17.00
Ming Yellow (1935) by John P Marquand (1893-1960)
It is 1932 in China
Music composed by: Peter Crossley-Holland
Singer: Lian-Shin Yang; Flautist: Wilfred Smith; Guitar:Desmond Dupre; Oboe:Edward Selwyn; Viola:Maurice Meek; Flute:Harold Clarke
1 of 6: Philip Liu Proposes a Journey
Produced by: Mary Hope Allen
Rodney Jones: William Sylvester
Mel Newall: Jill Melford
Philip Liu: David Spenser
Paul Steuben: John Scott
Edwin Newall: John Salew
Liang: Frank Atkinson
Mr Wong: John Ruddock
Chou Fu-Shan/ Monsieur Pierre: Jeffrey Segal
The Barman/ No 2 boy: Guy Kingsley Poynter
Hotel Boy: John Hollis
Additional cast in parts 2-6: Gabriel Woolf and George Rose
Weekly, part 6 broadcast on 1st March 1959.
2nd February 1959
19.30-20.00
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey, adapted by Cyril Wentzel
1 of 4: A Meeting in the Strand
Producer: Peter Watts
Brat Farrar: Frank Duncan
Alec Loding: Alexander Archdale
Aunt Bee: Molly Rankin
Nancy Peck: Margaret Chisholm
The Rev George Peck: Leigh Crutchley
Mr Sandal: Frederick Treves
Mercer: Richard Lambert
Ruth Ashby: Ursula Hirst
Eleanor Ashby: Gillian Andrews
Simon Ashby: David Peel
Additional cast in part 2-4:
Sheila Parslow: Kathleen Helm
Groom: Peter Whitbread
Mr Macallan: Duncan McIntyre
Albert Potticary: D'Arcy Conyers
Abel Tusk: Leonard Trolley
Pilbeam: Stephen Jack
Roger Clint: Cyril Wentzel
Mr Andrews: Gabriel Woolf
Sergeant Curtis: Anthony Marriott
Nurse: Ella Milne
Waitress: Antonia Saxton
Pt2:9/2/59 Pt3:16/2/59 Pt4:23/2/59
[Also produced by Peter Watts in 1954 with Jack Allen as George]
[Also produced by Richard Imison in 1979 rptd 1980 with George Baker as George]
26th February 1959
21.30-22.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Dark Wind by Michael Noonan
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Sanford: Rolf Lefebvre
Burke: Denis Goacher
Anderson: Alexander Gray
Roger Baxter: George Little
Commander Grant: Richard Williams
Doctor Ridowski: Gabriel Woolf
Repeated on Home on 28th February 1959
2nd March 1959
19.30-20.00
Paul Temple and the Conrad Case by Francis Durbridge (1912-1998)
1 of 8: The Man from Munich
Producer: Martyn C Webster
Paul Temple: Peter Coke
Steve: Marjorie Westbury
Charlie: James Beattie
Sir Graham Forbes: Richard Williams
Herr Breckshaft: Jeffrey Segal
Mrs Weldon: Virginia Winter
June: June Tobin
Additional cast in eps 3-8:
Beatrice Ormonde, Dorothy Holmes-Gore, Dorothy Smith, Frank Partington, George Hagan, Hilda Schroder, Hugh Manning, James Thomason, Jane Jordan Rogers, Joan Matheson, John Bennett, John Bryning, John Cazabon, John Graham, John Hollis, Judy Bailey, Rolf Lefebvre
Ep2:9/3/59 Ep3:16/3/59 Ep4:23/3/59 Ep5:30/3/59 Ep6:6/4/59 Ep7:13/4/59 Ep8:20/4/59
Series repeated commencing 3rd July 1959, also Series repeated on R4 (daily) commencing 25/12/86
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X]
[There were 21 radio stories about Paul Temple, starting in 1938. Including revisions and new productions but not repeats, there were 27 radio stories, the last new story was 1965.
8th March 1959
16.30-17.00
Imperial Palace by Arnold Bennett adapted by Michael Black
1 of 10: Early Morning
Cast for part one:
Produced by Martyn C. Webster and David H. Godfrey
Storyteller: Simon Lack
Evelyn Orcham: Richard Hurndall
Sir Henry Savott: Richard Williams
Gracie Savott: Monica Grey
Jack Cradock: Sidney Monckton
Charlie Jebson: Ronald Baddiley
George, a liftman: Stanley Groome
Parts 2-10 followed weekly with part 10 broadcast on 10th May 1959.
The series was repeated on Home from 10th July 1959
[Also produced by Enyd Williams in 1997 for R4 -rptd R4X-, in four parts(R4).]
12th March 1959
21.30-22.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: I Bought A Jalopy by Roderick Wilkinson
Produced by H. B. Fortuin
Roddy, who tells the story: William Eedle
Scotty: Derek Prentice
Jean: Josephine Martin
Car owner: Robert Grant
Mrs Pitt: Ella Milne
Auctioneer: John Bennett
Wideboy: John Cazabon
Tosh: Martin Gordon
Expert: John Bryning
Mechanic: Harold Young
Connie: Sheila Grant
George: Peter Wilde
Also with Robert Grant, John Bennett, John Cazabon. and Martin Gordon
Repeated from Home, 23rd May 1958
Repeated on Home on 14th March 1959
["Jalopy"="a dilapidated old vehicle"]
19th March 1959
21.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Top Prize by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Produced by Archie Campbell
Ted Adams: Frederick Treves
Flo, his wife: Betty Baskcomb
Gillian, their daughter: Jane Asher
Peter, their son: Karl Lanchbury
Fairground attendant: Jeffrey Segal
Woman contestant: Hilda Schroder
The Quiz-Master: Pete Murray
Repeated on Home 21st March 1959
26th March 1959
21.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Shadrach Palm by Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965)
British Guiana.
Drummer: Emmanuel Myers
Production by Robin Midgley
Bryanston: Baliol Holloway
Wilkes: Frank Windsor
Jackson: John Harrison
Repeated on Home 28th March 1959
[Mittelholzer was born in Guyana and moved to England after the war].
31st March 1959
21.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Unclaimed Reward by Gale Pedrick (1906-1970)
Produced by Archie Campbell
Max Gentry, who tells the story: Russell Napier
Johnny: Philip Gilbert
Marcel / 2nd gunman: John Hollis
Achmed: Rifat Shenel
First gunman: Frederick Treves
Carole: Jane Jordan Rogers
Renner: Peter Illing
O'Connor: Patrick McAlinney
Switchboard operator: Rod McManigal
7th April 1959
21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Editor Regrets by Michael Brett
A chapter in the history of the County Gazette
Produced by H. B. Fortuin
Frederick Elton: Arthur Young
Stella: Sheila Manahan
George Maxwell: Frederick Treves
Lena Welling: Betty Baskcomb
William Welling: Harold Young
Arnold Stott: Ronald Baddiley
Repeated from Home of 11th February 1959
[No relation to the 1970 tv programme "Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Editor Regrets" written by William Douglas Home]
14th April 1959
21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Save The Standard by Victor Lucas (1919-2000)
Produced by Charles Lefeaux
Fred: Ronald Baddiley
Councillor Henderson: Godfrey Kenton
Lavinia Dane: June Tobin
Councillor Bessie Watson: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Harry Battersbee: Deryck Guyler
Mr Tansley: Frederick Treves
Miss Grant: Sylvia Coleridge
Miss Danby: Ella Milne
[The play was broadcast on Home on 15th November 1958 with the same production details BUT with John Hollis credited as playing Fred.]
21st April 1959
21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Dream by Paolo Levi (1919-1989), translated by Robert Rietty (1923-2015)
Production by Audrey Cameron
Attila Edoardo: Robert Rietty
Signora Fiori: Janet Burnell
Moroni: Brewster Mason
Jeanette: Joan Matheson
Lisa: Ella Milne
27th April 1959
19.30-20.00
City Of The Hidden Eyes by Philip Levene
Part 1 of 8
Producer: Michael Bakewell
Mrs. Milne: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Sir William Stacey: John Cazabon
Cooper: Peter Claughton
Police Sergeant: Trevor Martin
Inspector Adams: John Dearth
Commissioner Grant: Richard Williams
Dr. Andrew Gauge: Robert Urquhart
Helen Lomax: Gwen Cherrell
Professor Lomax: Arnold Marie
Dr. Meredith: James Thomason
Dr. Reid: Haydn Jones
Additional actors in later parts:
Barrington: Anthony Viccars
Captain Jamieson: Duncan McIntyre
Cooper: Peter Claughton
Engineer: James Thomason
Farrow: John Glen
Hamilton: Norman Claridge
Landlady: Joan Matheson
Newsreader: John Graham
Pilot: Gabriel Woolf
Drew/Porter: John Hollis
Preston: Malcolm Hayes
Robert: Andrew Irving
Saunders: George Hagan
The Minister for Home Affairs: Godfrey Kenton
Wood: John Boddington
Parts 2-8 followed weekly. Part 8 broadcast 15th June 1959.
28th April 1959
21.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Mass Of Cobwebs by Brian Batchelor, adapted from The Tractate Middoth by M. R. James (1862-1936)
Production by Robin Midgley
William Garrett: Peter Howell
John Eldred: Edgar Norfolk
Hodgson: Charles Simon
George Earle: Derek Martinus
Mrs Simpson: Sheila Keith
Mary Simpson: Armine Sandford
Dr Rant: Norman Claridge
Coroner: John Saunders
Maid: Audrey Craig-Brown
Railway Porter: Norman Bird
5th May 1959
21.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Battling Billson's Last Fight by P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975).
Production by H. B. Fortuin
Roberts, a barman: Peter Wilde
Corky McCorkadale: William Fox
Stanley Ukridge: Naunton Wayne
Bronwen Morgan, a barmaid: Judy Bailey
Battling Billson: Trevor Martin
Landlady: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Izzy Previn: Frederick Treves
Mr Morgan: Gabriel Woolf
Robert Pendennis: John Cazabon
M C: John Boddington
Referee: Leigh Crutchley
["The Return of Battling Billson" was produced in 1993 by Sarah Smith]
12th May 1959
20.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Man With The Twisted Lip (1891) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), adapted by Michael Hardwick
Appearances may be deceptive.
Production by Frederick Bradnum
Doctor Watson: Norman Shelley
Mrs Watson: Sylvia Coleridge
Mrs Whitney: Eva Stuart
Isa Whitney: Robert Sansom
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Mrs St Clair: Hilda Schroder
Lascar: Garard Green
An Inspector: Robert Sansom
A Constable: Joe Sterne
Inspector Bradstreet: Ronald Baddiley
Boone: Frederick Treves
Repeated 18th January 1961 on Home.
[Also produced in 1990 with Clive Merrison as Holmes, rptd 1992, also on R7, R4X]
[First radio version was in 1930 in the USA]
17th May 1959
16.30-17.00
The Sign of Four (1890) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), dramatized by Felix Felton
1 of 5:
Producer: Archie Campbell
Sherlock Holmes: Richard Hurndall
Dr Watson: Bryan Coleman
Mary Morstan: Barbara Mitchell
Mrs Hudson, Holmes's landlady: Elsa Palmer
Williams, a coachman: Henry Kay
Cabdrive/Servant: Edgar Norfolk
Additional actors in parts 2-5: Charles Lamb, Doris Yorke, Dorothy Black, Duncan McIntyre, Ella Milne, Haydn Jones, Ishaq Bux, John Graham, John Moffatt, Keith Williams, Lane MacNamara, Leigh Crutchley, Norman Claridge, Paul Taylor, Tom Bowman
Weekly, part 5 transmitted 14th June 1959.
[Also produced by Val Gielgud in 1963 with Carleton Hobbs as Holmes]
[Also produced in two parts in 1989 by David Johnston with Clive Merrison as Holmes, rptd R7 and R4X (as The Sign of the Four)]
[First referred to as "The Sign of the Four", later as "The Sign of Four" referring to four names.]
[First radio version was 1922 in the USA.].
19th May 1959
21.30-22.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Companion To A Lady (1940) by Mabel Constanduros (1880-1957) and Howard Agg (1908-1968)
Production by Robin Midgley
Miss Honeysett: Rosamund Greenwood
Miss Gaunt, her companion: Stella Textor
Jinny, her maid: Peggy Butt
Cathy, her niece: Patricia Routledge
Repeated on Home on 22nd June 1959
26th May 1959
21.30-22.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Shop On The Corner (1934) by L. A. G. Strong (1896-1958)
With John Glen.
No production details.
[The drama slot on 2nd June was preempted by boxing]
9th June 1959
21.30-22.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown (1903) by G K Chesterton (1874-1936) adapted by Douglas Cleverdon
Producer: Peter Watts
Swinburne: Eric Holmes
Basil Grant: Godfrey Kenton
Rupert Grant: Ronald Barton
Major Brown: Richard Williams
A man: Ronald Sidney
A gardener: George Merritt
The lady: Ella Milne
A voice: Macolm Hayes
Mr Northover: Howieson Culff
Miss Hobson: Beryl Calder
[Also produced by Simon Nicholls for R4, broadcast 4/4/2005, with David Warner as Basil, rptd R4X]
[This story appeared in "The Club of Queer Trades" (1905)]
16th June 1959
21.30-22.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Nocturne In Scotland by Monckton Hoffe (1880-1951)
Piano: Arthur Dulay
Chopin and a Scottish castle in October 1840's
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Narrator: James McKechnie
Elphinstone Whibley: Richard Williams
Campbell Gower: Laidman Browne
Dougal: Douglas Storm
Mrs Erskine: Dorothy Smith
Jane Stirling: Mairhi Russell
Frederick Chopin: Rolf Lefebvre
Maggie: Kathleen Helme
[Other productions: Radio productions 1941,1949. TV production 1951. James McKechnie was also the narrator in the 1941 radio play.]
18th June 1959
20.30-21.00
"It's a Crime" - the second of two series by Eddie Maguire, comedy/pastiche thrillers
1. Mystery in Miniature by Eddie Maguire
Produced by Bill Gates
Principal series actors: Brian Reece, Denise Bryer, Gordon Davies.
Weekly. The final (tenth) story in this series was 20/9/59.
Series one ran from 7th April 1958 to episode 12 on 23rd June 1958.
Little record of this almost forgotten series remains. Brian Reece, who died in 1962, found fame as "PC49" 1947-1953.
No further entries will appear below.
21st June 1959
16.30-17.00
The Food of the Gods (1904) by H G Wells (1866-1946) adapted by C Gordon Glover.
Produced by Noel Iliff.
Part 1 of 6:
No production details for part 1.
Cast in part 2.
Narrator: Ernest Clark
Skinner: Harold Reese
John Bensington: Richard Goolden
Cousin Jane: Beatrice Kane
Mrs Skinner: Nan Marriott-Watson
Professor Redwood: David March
A gamekeeper: Eric Lugg
Cossar: Ronald Baddiley
Additional cast in parts 3-6:
Ann Nabarro, Anthony Viccars, Barbara Greenhalgh, Catherine Salkeld, Felix Felton, Frank Atkinson, Freda Falconer, Gabriel Woolf, Godfrey Kenton, Hugh Manning, Jeffrey Segal, John Bennett, John Hollis, John Scott, John Westbrook, Molly Rankin, Nicky Edmett, Norman Claridge, Peter Wilde, Philip Cunningham, Rita Staines, Simona Pakenham, Wilfrid Grantham
Pt2: 28/6/59 Pt3:5/7/59 Pt4:12/7/59 Pt5:19/7/59 Pt6:26/7/59
[Apparently the only BBC radio production of this work]
23rd June 1959
21.30-22.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: His Brother's Keeper (1928) by W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943) dramatised by Lionel Brown
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Prison warder: John Cazabon
Father Gavin: Cyril Luckham
Anthony Keller: Maurice Denham
Clem Dobson: James Thomason
Mrs Howe: Elsa Palmer
Jack Dickson: William Eedle
Tom Mason: Owen Fellowes
Constable Evans: Frederick Treves
[Also produced by Cleland Finn in 1952 with Arthur Ridley as Prison warder.]
30th June 1959
21.00-21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Beryl Coronet (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), adapted by Michael Hardwick
Producer: Frederick Bradnum
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Doctor Watson: Norman Shelley
Alexander Holder: Robert Sansom
His Grace: Godfrey Kenton
Arthur Holder: Frederick Treves
Mary Holder: Eva Huszar
Also with Hilda Schroder and Ronald Baddiley
Repeated R4, 8th February 1961.
[Also broadcast on R4X 2017-2021]
[Also produced by Enyd Williams in 1991, rptd 1992, for R4 with Clive Merrison as Holmes, rptd R7 and R4X]
3rd July 1959
22.00-22.30
Paul Temple and the Conrad Case by Francis Durbridge.
1 of 8: The man from Munich.
Repeated from 2nd March 1959 - please see above.
7th July 1959
21.00-21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Crown of Gold by Giles Cooper (1918-1966)
A member of a yacht's crew finds a new occupation.
Produced by Archie Campbell
Lady Pinn: Belle Chrystall
Sir Ronald Pinn: William Kendall
Max: Max Adrian
Sid a steward: Jeffrey Segal
Ship's Captain: Leigh Crutchley
Pepe, a South American General: John Hollis
Christobal: Ronald Baddiley
Domingo: John Bennett
[The script is held in box 4 at Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library in New York]
14th July 1959
22.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: I Had To Go Sick by J. Maclaren-Ross (1912-1964)
During the second world war.
Produced by R. D. Smith
Narrator: J MacLaren-Ross
Sergeant: Malcolm Hayes
Private Ross: David March
Sergeant-Major: Ronald Fraser
Instructor: Bryan Pringle
First Old Sweat: Leigh Crutchley
Second Old Sweat: Brian Wilde
Orderly Sergeant: Ronald Baddiley
First M O: Douglas Storm
Company Commander: Douglas Seale
Second M O: John Dearth
Senior Medical Officer: Duncan McIntyre
Sister: Coral Fairweather
Orderly Corporal: John Bennett
Third M O: Anthony Viccars
Also with David Andrews, Haydn Jones, James McLoughlin
[Also broadcast on R4X 2014]
[Julian Maclaren-Ross was invalided out of the army after deserting and a break-down.]
[A signed handwritten manuscript of the radio play is held at Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin in container 3.6]
21st July 1959
21.00-21.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Digby - a Memoir by Justin Blake
with Hugh Burden
[No production details given. The only radio credit for Justin Blake].
[From Diversity: also with Anthony Shaw, Alan Lawrance, Gabriel Woolf, Lee Fox]
28th July 1959
14.30-15.00
Test Room Eight by Lester Powell.
Part 1 of 6.
Series repeated from 22nd December 1958
Please refer to 5th January 1959 above.
28th July 1959
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Fox And The Forest by Ray Bradbury adapted by Jack Pulman
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Sue: Jane Jordan Rogers
Roger: David March
Carlos: Raf de la Torre
Simnis: John Wyse
Joe: Stuart Nichol
Al: Errol MacKinnon
Waiter: Errol MacKinnon
[Also produced in 1983-4 by Michael McDonough for NPR (USA), broadcast on R4X, 2011-2014. With Neil Barth. No other details.]
2nd August 1959
16.30-17.00
Enter Three Witches (1942) by D L Murray, dramatised by Thea Holme
1890's. 1 of 10: King Charles's Head
Produced by Charles Lefeaux
No cast for part 1.
Cast in Part 2:
Sam Rubens: John Gabriel
Josie Marchmont: Billie Whitelaw
Partridge: George Hagan
Jan Smeltz: David Peel
Charlie Lachmann: John Hollis
Sir Julius Davenant: Howard Marion-Crawford
Alf Davenant: Ronald Baddiley
Gambardelli: George Merritt
Dick Dodge: Douglas Storm
Violet Marchmont: Dilys Laye
Mrs Marchmont: Janet Burnell
Mr Marchmont: Richard Williams
Rose Marchmont: Hilda Schroder
Additional cast in Parts 3 to 10:
Dorothy Gordon, Dorothy Holmes-Gore, Edgar Norfolk, Eva Stuart, Gabriel Woolf, John Rye, John Rye, Judy Bailey, Kathleen Helme, Leigh Crutchley, Malcolm Hayes, Robin Ray, Sheila Mitchell, Sylvia Coleridge, Willougbby Goddard
Banjo played by Billy Bell
Weekly - Part 10 broadcast 4th October 1959
[Also produced on R4, in 10 parts by Brian Miller, commencing 30th June 1970 with Joe Melia as Sam]
4th August 1959
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Blanched Soldier (1926) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) adapted by Michael Hardwick
Production by Frederick Bradnum
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Doctor Watson: Norman Shelley
James M Dodd: Frederick Treves
Colonel Emsworth: Robert Sansom
Ralph, the butler: Frank Atkinson
Mr Kent: William Eedle
Godfrey Emsworth: Denis Goacher
Sir James Saunders: Norman Claridge
Repeated on Home 11th March 1961.
[Also broadcast on R4X 2017-2021]
[Also produced by Roger Danes for R4 in 1994, rptd 1997, also rptd R7 2008-2010, with Clive Merrison as Holmes]
[Dr Watson did not appear in the original written story (he was on his honeymoon). The original story manuscript is in New York library.]
10th August 1959
21.00-21.30
The Pagoda Well (1958) by Berkely Mather (John Evan Weston-Davies (1909-1996).)
Script associate: Richard Bickers
Part 1 of 6.
No details for episode 1.
Episode 2 (17/8/59):
Producer: Robin Midgley
Richard Sefton: Cyril Shaps
Dolly Pringle: Barbara Assoon
Professor Neave: Richard Hurndall
The Rev Pusey: Denys Blakelock
Tara Singh: Hugh David
Pereira: Geoffrey Matthews
Gharial Singh: Tom Bowman
Biwi Singh: Jill Nyassa
Mechanic/ Bhimji/ Ferryman: Rashid Karapiet
Additional actors in parts 3-6:
Bannerjee: Garard Green
Doctor Thornton: Norman Claridge
Elaine Hildreth: Eva Stuart
Finlay: George Hagan
Gupta: Malcolm Hayes
Lt Shreenagar: Manning Wilson
Mrs Pusey: Sylvia Coleridge
Ngu Pah: Sylvia Kay
Sepoy: Shivendra Sinha
Part 6 was broadcast 14th September 1959
11th August 1959
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Copper Beeches (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) adapted by Michael Hardwick
Production by Frederick Bradnum
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Doctor Watson: Norman Shelley
Violet Hunter: Hilda Schroder
Miss Stoper/ Mrs Rucastle: Eva Stuart
Mr Rucastle: Frederick Treves
Mrs Toller: Fanny Carby
[Also broadcast on R7/R4X 2007-2021]
[Also produced by Felix Felton in 1955- also with Hobbs/Shelley but with Natalie Moya as Miss Stoper]
[Also produced by Vanessa Whitburn in 1978 for R4, with Barry Foster as Holmes]
[Also produced by Enyd Williams in 1991 for R4 with Clive Merrison as Holmes - rptd R7 2008]
18th August 1959
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Noble Bachelor (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) adapted by Michael Hardwick
Production by Frederick Bradnum
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Doctor Watson: Norman Shelley
Lord St Simon: William Eedle
Lestrade: Frederick Treves
Mrs Moulton Jane: Jordan Rogers
Francis Hay Moulton: Jerold Wells
[Also broadcast on R4X 2017-2021]
[Also produced by Enyd Williams in 1991 rptd 1992 for R4 with Clive Merrison as Holmes, rptd R7 and R4X 2008-2016]
25th August 1959
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Shoscombe Old Place (1927) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) adapted by Michael Hardwick
Production by Frederick Bradnum
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Doctor Watson: Norman Shelley
John Mason: Frederick Treves
Josiah Barnes: Ronald Baddiley
Sir Robert Norberton: Godfrey Kenton
Mrs Norlett: Fanny Carby
Mr Norlett: Robert Sansom
Stephens: Frank Atkinson
[Also broadcast on R4X 2017-2021]
[Also produced by Enyd Williams for R4 in 1995, rptd 1997, 1998 with Clive Merrison as Holmes, repeated R7 2008-2010]]
1st September 1959
21.00-21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Point Of Destruction by Ru Pullan (1916-1993)
Production by Bryan Izzard
Spencer, a newspaper sub-editor: Robert Bernal
Voss, a free-lance journalist: James Grout
Dr Todd, a young G P: John Rye
Cathleen Counsel, his fiancee: Judy Bailey
Mrs Kirby, a loud-mouthed landlady: Pat Keen
Rollins, alias Merrick: Jon Rollason
Inspector Grant of the C I D: Keith Williams
Sir Jeffrey Counsel: Norman Wooland
Lord Craig, a newspaper owner: Carleton Hobbs
8th September 1959
21.00-21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Front Page Stuff by Michael Brett
Producer: Norman Wright
Stella: Elizabeth London
George Maxwell: Frederick Treves
Mr Elton: Eric Anderson
Inspector Marks: Robin Lloyd
Sergeant Dove: Frank Partington
Charlie Chubbs: George Merritt
First Raider: Michael Turner
Second Raider: Jon Rollason
The drama slot for 15th September was replaced by boxing.
22nd September 1959
21.00-21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Little Dog
No production information given.
28th September 1959
19.30-20.00
Orbiter X by B D Chapman.
Part 1 of 14
Producer: Charles Maxwell
Captain Bob Britton: John Carson
Captain Douglas McClelland: Andrew Crawford
Flight Engineer Hicks: Barrie Gosney
Colonel Kent: Donald Bisset
Captain Jack Bradley: John Witty
Control Officer Brown: Peter Noel Cook
Control Officer Camm: Francis Hall
Repeated weekly for 14 weeks, part 14 broadcast
28th December 1959.
[Also broadcast on R4X 2016-2022)
30th September 1959
20.00-20.30
Gunsmoke by John Meston (1914-1979)
Edited by Charles Chilton
Part 1 of 21.
Producer Norman Macdonnell
Matt Dillon: William Conrad
Chester Proudfoot: Parley Baer
Kitty: Georgia Ellis
Doc: Howard McNear
Weekly for 21 weeks, last part 17th February 1960. All 21 episodes were written by John Meston.
[In total John Meston wrote 183 episodes from a total of 413 radio shows, and 196 episodes of the 635 tv shows. The story started on CBS Radio (USA) from 1952. Meston's final story aired in 1965.
6th October 1959
21.30-22.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Woman's Touch by Elizabeth Dawson
Producer: James R Gregson
Fred Cooper, the Removal man: Fred Fairclough
Johnnie, his mate: Brian Trueman
Mr Akroyd, their employer: Bill Price
Tommie Atkins, his cashier: Betty Alberge
Harry Bowles, his customer: Tom Harrison
11th October 1959
16.30-17.00
The Dog Collar by Ursula Bloom (1892-1984)
1 of 6
No details available for the first story broadcast.
Story 2 (18th Oct):
Production by Audrey Cameron
Father Robert Tressland: David March
Father Vane: Duncan McIntyre
Father Mike Leary: John Graham
Frances Moffat: Molly Rankin
James Hyde, a draper: George Merritt
Peter Springer: Peter Wilde
Sally Hyde, his fiance: Hilda Schroder
Mr Springer: Godfrey Kenton
Additional cast in parts 3-6:
Annabel Maule, Beryl Calder, Cecile Chevreau, Dorothy Holmes-Gore, Ella Milne, Haydn Jones, James Thomason, Jane Jordan Rogers, Janet Burnell, Jeffrey Segal, Jill Raymond, Joan Matheson, John Bryning, John Dearth, Judy Bailey, Kathleen Helme, Mary Wimbush, Philip Cunningham
Weekly, the final (sixth) program in this series was on 15th November 1959
[The programme continued over four series. Series 4 was in 1964.]
[Ursula Bloom was the daughter of a church minister. A dog collar is the term used to describe a type of church ministers collar.]
13th October 1959
20.30-21.00
The Dreaming Suburb by R. F. Delderfield
1 of 12
No production details for episode 1.
Piano: Cicely Hoye
Singer: Betty Baskcomb
Editor: Cynthia Pughe
Producer: Norman Wright
Episode 2 (20th October):
Miss Baker: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Jim: Malcolm Hayes
Louise: Beryl Calder
Archie: David March
Judy: Sheila Grant
Bernard: Tony Craze
Boxer: Sam Jephcott
Edith: Catherine Salkeld
Eunice: Joan Matheson
Becky: Jane Jordan Rogers
Esme: Simon Lack
Edgar: Godfrey Kenton
Esther: Ella Milne
Elaine: June Tobin
Sydney: Karl Lanchbury
Toni: Eric Anderson
Ted Hartnell: Trevor Martin
Maria: Sheila Manahan
Harold Godbeer: John Bryning
Frances Hopkins: Eva Stuart
Additional actors in parts 3-12:
Betty Baskcomb, David Spenser, Simon Lack, Gabriel Woolf, George Merritt, Glyn Dearman, Harold Reese, Henry Davies, Jeffrey Segal, John Bennett, John Graham, John Hollis, Kathleen Helme, Leigh Crutchley, Margaret Courtenay, Nan Marriott-Watson, Norman Claridge, Rita Staines, Rolf Lefebvre, Sylvia Coleridge, Trader Faulkner
Weekly, part 12 broadcast on 29th December 1959
Series repeated on Home, commencing 3rd July 1962
22nd November 1959
16.30-17.00
Paul Temple And The Gilbert Case by Francis Durbridge (1912-1998)
1 of 8: The Unlucky One
Produced By: Martyn C. Webster
Paul Temple: Peter Coke
Steve: Marjorie Westbury
Charlie: James Beattie
Sir Graham Forbes: Richard Williams
Detective Inspector Kingston: Duncan McIntyre
Wilfrid Stirling: Douglas Storm
Betty Wayne: Eva Stuart
Lance Reynolds: Simon Lack
Dick Metcalf: Peter Wilde
Additional cast in parts 2-8:
A Warder: James Thomason
Dan Priestley: Ronald Baddiley
Detective Sergeant Johnson: George Hagan
Howard Gilbert/Waiter: John Bennett
Louis Fabian: John Hollis
Lynn Ferguson: June Tobin
Miss White: Joan Matheson
Mrs Talbot: Kathleen Helme
Peter Galino: David Spenser
Weekly for 8 weeks, part 8 broadcast 10th January 1960.
[A remake of the 1954 series on BBC Home, which was broadcast from 29/3/1954, which was repeated many times on R7 and R4X, also released on tape and CD. In the 1954 version Lance Reynolds was played by Richard Williams and Betty Wayne by Grizelda Hervey]
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Compiled by Stephen Shaw 2024.
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(....thanks again, Stephen ...-ND)
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