Light Programme, Drama, 1964
Drama on the BBC Light Programme in 1964
(The Light Programme ran from 1945 to 1967. )
Stephen Shaw, 2025
There's a note from Stephen at the bottom of the page. - ND
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1st January 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Question of Guilt by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Is he a murderer?
Produced by Martyn C. Webster
Sam Waites (Plates): Malcolm Hayes
Ted Brophy: Bruce Condell
Peter Harris: Leonard Cracknell
Prison Officer Lomax: Peter Claughton
Colonel Yates: James McKechnie
Miss Turner: Joan Matheson
Mousey Doyle: Kevin Flood
Dave Elton: Fraser Kerr
Mr Crowley: John Ruddock
[Also produced by Betty Davies in 1973 for R4 with Anthony Hall as Sam.]
1st January 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Bag and Baggage by Sheila Hodgson (1921-2001)
Produced By: Michael Bakewell
Cast: Mary O'Farrell, James Thomason, Alan Haines and Valerie Kirkbright
[This was the first programme in this series which concluded on 1st May 1964. The series was reborn on R4 in 1978 and ran until 1980.]
2nd January 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Lend Me Ten Bob by Michael Dines
Produced by Archie Campbell
Cast: John Baddeley, Alan Haines, Moira Mannion, Elizabeth Morgan and Peter Bartlett
3rd January 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: The Birthday Present by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Produced by Martyn C. Webster
Cast: Lewis Stringer, Margaret Wolfit, Frederick Treves and Gordon Faith
[Also produced by Gerry Jones in 1973 for R4]
5th January 1964
19.00-19.30
The Trigger by Roger Dixon.
Part 2 of 6.
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Part 1 was broadcast 29th December 1963 which please refer to.
Part 6 was broadcast on 2nd February 1964.
6th January 1964
20.00-20.30
Round the Garden by Richard Harris.
Life at Covent Garden market.
1 of 6: Harry's Boy.
Produced By: Hugh Stewart
Harry Nicholls: Ronald Baddiley
Stan Finney: Geoffrey Matthews
Harry Boy: Michael Collins
Rose Nicholls: Susan Richards
Maxie: Bruce Condell
Russell: Heron Carvic
Charlie: Gordon Faith
Betty Nicholls: Peggy Ann Wood
Young Harry: Nigel Graham
Colonel: Howieson Culff
Sally: Isabel Rennie
Dennis: Frederick Treves
Additional actors in parts 2-6:
Anthony Viccars, Christopher Hodge, Donald Morley, Fraser Kerr, Henry Kay, John Baddeley, John Ruddock, Kate Binchy, Mary Chester, Megan Latimer, Michael Deacon, Moira Mannion, Nancie Jackson, Nigel Anthony, Norma Griffin, Olga Dickie, Peter Pratt, Ralph Truman, Roger Snowdon, Tom Bowman, Valerie Kirkbright
Story 6 broadcast 10th February 1964
6th January 1964
23.40-
Just Before Midnight: Wherefore art Thou? by Alan Gosling
Produced by John Gibson
The girl: Kika Markham
The boy: Kenneth Cranham
Repeated 23rd August 1964
7th January 1964:
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Petronella Pan (1944) by John Keir Cross (1914-1967)
"Unless you become as children".
Produced by Archie Campbell
Cast: Frederick Treves, Ralph Truman, Petronella Barker, Olga Lindo and Jo Manning Wilson
[Strange to find a play written in 1944 with an actress whose name has the rather unusual title name- but both confirmed.]
8th January 1964:
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Press Gang by Vian Smith (1919-1969)
A local newspaper.
Produced by William Glen-Doepel
Switchboard girl: Petronella Barker
Willie Whittaker: William Eedle
Guy Parnell: Barrie Ingham
Secretary: Eva Haddon
Joe: Henry Stamper
Creedy: Denys Graham
Aunt Nance: Molly Rankin
Daventry: Peter O'Shaughnessy
Reekdale: Kevin Flood
Stella: Shirley Cooklin
Helen: Margaret Wolfit
Repeated on Home 19th September 1964 and 21st August 1966.
8th January 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Last Night by Denis Butler.
Produced By: John Gibson.
Cast: Molly Rankin and Austin Trevor
9th January 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Fog by Val Gielgud
Produced by Audrey Cameron
Cast: Austin Trevor, John Ruddock, Timothy Harley, Molly Rankin
10th January 1964
19.31-20.00
Pride of the Pacific by Rex Rienits (1909-1971).
The first of a set of short stories about the passengers and crew on the ship Cleo. Broadcast in two series of 13 (1964) (1964-1965) episodes.
Produced by Vernon Harris.
Primary cast: Bill Kerr, Ian Wallace, Duncan McIntyre.
Season 1 concluded on 3rd April 1964, Series 2 commenced 23rd October 1964.
10th January 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: The Crack of Doom by Frederick Bradnum (1922-2001)
Produced by Archie Campbell
Cast: John Ruddock, Andrew Sachs, Hamlyn Benson, Ralph Truman, Olga Lindo, Moira Mannion and Molly Rankin
[Also produced in 1979 by Ian Cotterell]
13th January 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: The Dare Game by Rosemary Timperley (1920-1988)
Produced By: Keith Williams
Cast: Shirley Cooklin, Moira Mannion, Margaret Wolfit and Frederick Treves
Repeated 2nd August 1964
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018-2022]
14th January 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: The Velvet Carpet by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Produced By: Archie Campbell
Cast: Ralph Truman, Nicolette Bernard, Gabriel Woolf and John Baddeley
[Also produced by Gerry Jones in 1973 for R4]
[Also produced by Cherry Cookson in 1979 for R4]
15th January 1964:
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Solo For Several Players by Barbara Jefferis (1917-2004), adapted by Michael Hardwick
The plane starts to move.
Produced by Audrey Cameron
Dick Garnett: Bruce Beeby
Janet Osborne: Sheila Grant
Mrs Garnett: Brenda Dunrich
Sylvie: Paddy Turner
Dave Jordan: Roy Patrick
George Donovan: Bruce Wightman
Repeated 11th July 1964 and 19th December 1968 on R4 and 18th December 1968 on R2
15th January 1964:
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: A Restful Noise by Richard Drewett (1935-2008)
Piano: Wilfrid Parry
Trombone: Keith Christie
Produced by John Gibson
Cast: William Fox, Mary O'Farrell, James Thomason, Molly Rankin, John Ruddock, John Baddeley
16th January 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Who Did You Say You Were? by Dan Cooke
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: James McKechnie, Shirley Cooklin, Moira Mannion, Bruce Condell
17th January 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Every Night it Rains by Mark Channing
Produced By: Michael Bakewell
Cast: Norman Claridge, Fraser Kerr, Andrew Sachs and Shirley Cooklin
20th January 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Death Sentence by Philip Levene
Produced By: Martyn C. Webster
Frederick Treves, Mary O'Farrell, Kevin Flood and John Baddeley
21st January 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Her Name was Paula ffrench by Dan Cooke
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Cast: Gabriel Woolf and Elizabeth Morgan
22nd January 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: No Holds Barred by William Collins
Wrestling.
Produced by R. D. Smith
Waiter: Peter Pratt
Bob Baines: Kenneth Hyde
Hector Constantinos: John Hollis
Pia Arimetti: Cecile Chevreau
Dan O'Brien: Kevin Flood
Johnny Jamaica: Tommy Eytle
Fred: George Merritt
Tom Llewellyn: Norman Wynne
Harry Craddock: John Baddeley
Myra Aristides: Mary Wimbush
Chris: Frederick Treves
Hotel Manager: Kenneth McClellan
Renee: Isabel Rennie
Dave: Nicholas Edmett
M C: Tony Van Den Bergh
22nd January 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: The Other Side of the Door by John Wilkie
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: Timothy Harley, Austin Trevor and Jo Manning Wilson
[Also produced by Shaun MacLoughlin in 1978 for R4]
23rd January 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Mr. Nemesis by Sean Gilroy
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: Margaret Wolfit, Frank Partington, Peter Bartlett
24th January 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Busy-Body by Michael Dines
Produced By: Archie Campbell
Cast: Alan Haines, James McKechnie and James Thomason
Repeated 2nd August 1964.
27th January 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Resting Place by David Campton (1924-2006)
What might have been.
Produced By: Keith Williams
Cast: Olga Lindo and George Merritt
[Also produced by Christopher Venning in 1979 for R4]
28th January 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: The Brain by Rosemary Timperley (1920-1988)
Produced By: Keith Williams
Cast: Moira Mannion, Shirley Cooklin and John Ruddock
29th January 1964
20.49-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Stella by Peter Yeldham (1927-2022), adapted by Gale Pedrick
The Australian outback.
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Narrator: Gabriel Woolf
Tom Mason: John Baddeley
Blanco White: John Cazabon
Billy Marsden: Russell Napier
Andy Ford: Lloyd Lamble
June Thompson: Gwenda Wilson
Stella Marsden: Bettina Dickson
Arthur Pearson: Dibbs Mather
Woman: Margaret Wolfit
Man: Bruce Condell
[Written for television and broadcast on ITV on 15th October 1963. Also filmed for video release as "Boundaries of the Heart" in 1988.]
29th January 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: The Shadow by Russell Twisk (1941-2013)
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: Lewis Stringer, Alan Haines, John Boxer
30th January 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: On and Off by Eddie Maguire
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Cast: Margaret Wolfit, Eva Stuart, Alan Haines, Gordon Faith, Kenneth Hyde and Hamlyn Benson
31st January 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Murder in Mind by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Cast: Mary O'Farrell, Moira Mannion and William Fox
[Repeated 5th July 1964]
3rd February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Under the Clock by Eric Barker (1912-1990)
Produced by David H Godfrey
Cast: Petronella Barker, Stephen Thorne, Gabriel Woolf, Isabel Rennie and Michael Goldie
[The BBC broadcast a variety radio programme called "Under the Clock" in 1956-60. On 19th March 1957 the "guest star" was Eric Barker.]
4th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Killer At Large by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Produced By: Martyn C. Webster
Cast: Nicolette Bernard; Norman Claridge; Michael Goldie; Wilfrid Carter; Glyn Dearman and Elizabeth Morgan
5th February 1964
20.40-21.55:
Mid-Week Theatre: Guilty Party (1961) by George Ross (1907-1982) and Campbell Singer (1909-1976), adapted by John Wilkie
Produced by Patrick Dromgoole
BBC West of England.
Salisbury Arts Theatre Company
Angela Forest: Ann Curthoys
Theo Henderson: Langton Jones
Colin Newman: Donald Pelmear
Margaret Kingsley: Anne Sheppard
Roy Morgan: David Daker
Stanley Littlefield: David Swift
Jackson Hibberd: Tim Hudson
David Newman: Tony Britton
Roger Schofield: Frank Smith
Joan Henderson: Nancie Herrod
Lewis Cruickshank: Richard Longman
5th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: The Hedge by Jane McClure
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: Molly Rankin and Hamlyn Benson
6th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Morning Story by Frederick Treves (1925-2012)
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: Elizabeth Morgan, Frederick Treves, Nicolette Bernard, Jo Manning Wilson
7th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: You Can't Say Hello to Anybody by Dannie Abse (1923-2014)
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: Jo Manning Wilson, Kevin Flood
10th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Late Night Play by Redmond Macdonogh
Produced by John Gibson
Cast: Isabel Rennie, Jo Manning Wilson, Andrew Sachs, John Baddeley, Michael Goldie
11th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Before I Wake by Sean Gilroy
Produced By: Archie Campbell
Cast: Frederick Treves, William Fox, Kenneth Hyde, Margaret Wolfit, Bruce Condell and Peter Bartlett
12th February 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Going Concern by Mollie Hardwick (1916-2003)
Produced by Betty Davies
Estate Agent: William Fox
Richie: Wilfred Pickles
Marian: Brenda Dunrich
Ben: Austin Trevor
Customer: Elizabeth Morgan
Taverner: Ralph Truman
The Rev George Wylie: Andrew Sachs
Mrs Robson: Nora Nicholson
Herzfeld: John Baddeley
Repeated from BBC Home 9th October 1963 and repeated on BBC Home 30th December 1965
12th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Music from the Grave by Edward J. Mason (1912-1971)
Piano: Carlina Carr
Produced By: Martyn C. Webster
Cast: Andrew Sachs, William Fox, Valerie Kirkbright, Michael Goldie and Kenneth Hyde
13th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: The Dig by Jane McClure
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: John Ruddock
14th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Requiescat by Denis Butler
Produced By: Archie Campbell
Cast: Peter Pratt, Kenneth Hyde (1907-1964), Eva Stuart, James Thomason and Bruce Condell
17th February 1964
20.00-20.30
Jean Meadows. Vet. by Ursula Bloom (1892-1984)
1 of 6. Spotted dog.
Produced By: Audrey Cameron
Teddy: Jo Manning Wilson
Jean Meadows: Gudrun Ure
Bill Easton, landlord: Peter Pratt
May Easton, his wife: Moira Mannion
Helen Merton: Molly Rankin
Doris Trent: Margaret Wolfit
Hank: Andrew Sachs
Boozer: Timothy Harley
Additional cast in stories 2-6:
Alan Haines, Austin Trevor, David March, Ella Milne, Garard Green, Gladys Young, John Baddeley, John Boxer, John Ruddock, Mary O'Farrell, Michael Spice, Nicolette Bernard, Olga Lindo, Valerie Kirkbright
Story 6 broadcast 23rd March 1964
17th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Hirshman and Son by Michael Dines
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: Valerie Kirkbright; Olga Lindo, Eva Stuart, Peter Pratt, Jo Manning Wilson
18th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Ear Witness by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Cast: Margaret Wolfit, Jo Manning Wilson, Isabel Rennie, Frederick Treves, Norman Claridge, Michael Goldie and Patricia Leventon
Repeated 6th September 1964
19th February 1964
20.40-21.40
Mid-Week Theatre: The Pot of Gold by Malcolm Hulke and Eric Paice
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Smithie: Norman Claridge
Marty Rudd: Frank Partington
Whitey: Lewis Stringer
Miss Smirthwaite: Janet Burnell
Miss Meadows: Grizelda Hervey
Graham Meadows: Sidney Monckton
Gas man: Andrew Irvine
Rhoda Brown: Shirley Cooklin
Francis the cat: Sheila Grant
Constable: Christopher Robbie
Sergeant Philips: Ronald Baddiley
Vicar: James Thomason
19th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: A Lovely Wedding by Ariadne Nicolaeff
Produced By: Archie Campbell
Cast: Nicolette Bernard
Repeated 26th July 1964
20th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: The Dissolution of Dominic Boot by Tom Stoppard
Produced By: Michael Bakewell
Cast: Valerie Kirkbright, John Baddeley, Peter Pratt
Repeated 9th August 1964
[Also directed by Glyn Dearman for R4 in 1978, rptd 1979, 1990]
21st February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Jazz Dialogue by (anon)
Piano: Les Reed (1935-2019)
Produced By: Ronald Mason
Cast: Margaret Wolfit (1929-2008)
24th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: What Happened to Saunders by Patrick Riddell (1905-1983)
Produced By: John Gibson
The General: Austin Trevor
The Colonel: Norman Claridge
Matron: Molly Rankin
25th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: The Disposal of Digby by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Produced By: Michael Bakewell
Cast: John Baddeley, Garard Green, Austin Trevor, Peter Pratt, Margaret Wolfit, Valerie Kirkbright and Peter Bartlett
Repeated 9th August 1984
[Also broadcast on R4X 2017-2022]
26th February 1964
21.20-22.00:
Mid-Week Theatre: Incidental Music by T. R. Garrett
A seaside amusement arcade.
Produced by Hugh Stewart
Mr Jay: Harold Scott
Blackie: Murray Melvin
Stanley: Geoffrey Wincott
Bill: Lewis Stringer
Fred: John Nash
Lorry driver: Leslie Glazer
Messenger: Michael Goldie
[The only credit in the BBC Programme database for T R Garrett]
26th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: The Intruders by Paul Ferris
Produced By: John Tydeman
Cast: Jo Manning Wilson, John Baddeley, Andrew Sachs and Kevin Flood
27th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Give Me A Ring by Allen Jones
Produced By: John Tydeman
Cast: Margaret Wolfit, Patricia Leventon and Isabel Rennie
28th February 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Help, Johnnie by Keith Williams and Jon Rollason (1931-2016)
Produced By: Ronald Mason
Cast: Andrew Sachs, Fraser Kerr, Peter Pratt, Kevin Flood
2nd March 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: A Day to Remember by John Commons
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: Fraser Kerr, James McKechnie, Isabel Rennie, Molly Rankin, Michael Deacon
3rd March 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Smart Alec by Richard Drewett (1935-2008)
Produced By: Ronald Mason
Cast: Peter Bartlett, John Baddeley, Michael Goldie, Bruce Condell, Wilfrid Carter
4th March 1964
20.40-21.40
Murder Beyond by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
A seance
Produced By: Martyn C. Webster
Stephen Kendall: Peter Coke
Alice Gardner: Moira Mannion
Dr Fletcher: Rolf Lefebvre
Hilary Sands: Margaret Wolfit
Mrs Bayliss: Nicolette Bernard
Inspector Alchin: William Fox
Sergeant Treeves: Fraser Kerr
Repeated on Home 22nd August 1964.
[Also produced by Michael Heffernan in 1973 for R4 with Geoffrey Banks as Dr Fletcher]
4th March 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Dreams by Janet Grey
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Cast: Wilfrid Carter, Nicolette Bernard, Mary O'Farrell, Gordon Faith
Repeated 16th August 1964
5th March 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: A Small Explosion by Dannie Abse (1923-2014)
Produced by John Gibson
Cast: John Baddeley, William Fox, Garard Green, Fraser Kerr, Stephen Thorne, Isabel Rennie
6th March 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Hold-Up by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Produced By: Martyn C. Webster
Cast: Timothy Harley, William Fox, Andrew Sachs and Jo Manning Wilson
9th March 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: The Founder Members by Brian Friel (1929-2015)
Produced By: Ronald Mason
Cast: George Merritt, James Thomason, John Baddeley, John Ruddock, Mary O'Farrell, Isabel Rennie, Jo Manning Wilson
10th March 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: The Follower by Kon Fraser
Produced By: John Tydeman
Cast: Mary O'Farrell, John Baddeley, Kevin Flood and Frederick Treves
11th March 1964
20.40-21.55
Mid-Week Theatre: A Chance to Shine by Elaine Morgan (1920-2013) adapted by Peggy Wells
Produced By: Herbert Davies
Henry: Emrys Cleaver
Eva: Rita Street
Midge: Beatty Walters
Tom, her husband: Eynon Evans
Policeman: Iruan Rhys Williams
[First produced in 1962, for BBC Wales television, length 75 mins]
11th March 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Early Morning Tea by Eric Barker
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Cast: Frederick Treves, Isabel Rennie, Kenneth Hyde, Stephen Thorne, Jo Manning Wilson, Michael Goldie and Nicolette Bernard
Repeated 26th July 1964
12th March 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: The Nightwatchman by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Produced By: Ronald Mason
Cast: Hamlyn Benson, Fraser Kerr, John Ruddock, Alan Haines, Gabriel Woolf, Eva Stuart, Margaret Wolfit
[Also broadcast on R4X 2022]
13th March 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Statement of Account by Patrick Riddell (1905-1983)
Produced By: John Gibson
The Admiral: Austin Trevor
John: Frederick Treves
Repeated 28th June 1964
16th March 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: End of the Picnic by David Campton (1924-2006)
Produced By: Ronald Mason
Cast: Olga Lindo and George Merritt
Repeated 19th July 1964
[Also produced by Ian Cotterell for R4 in 1979]
17th March 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Shoes by Alan Gosling
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: Garard Green, Hamlyn Benson, John Baddeley, Kenneth Hyde, Andrew Sachs, Vivienne Chatterton
18th March 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Beat Boy by Malcolm Hulke (1924-1979)
Pop songs composed by Mike Pratt and played by Arthur Greenslade and the Gee Men
Singers: John Baddeley and Alan Haines
Produced by Norman Wright
Edge Delaney: John Baddeley
Bobby Lightning: Alan Haines
Ann Marvin: Irene Sutcliffe
John Kean: Michael Goldie
Sean O'Brien: Kevin Flood
Luke Fenton: Charles Hodgson
Mr Coggins: George Merritt
Mrs Coggins: Ella Milne
18th March 1984
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: We Kind of Keep Each Other Going by Michael Campbell
Produced By: Archie Campbell
Cast: Mary O'Farrell and Andrew Sachs
19th March 1984
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: The Jig-Saw by Jill Hyem (1937-2015)
Produced By: Audrey Cameron
Cast: Olga Lindo, Mary O'Farrell, Nicolette Bernard and John Ruddock
Repeated 30th August 1964
20th March 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Here Lies Love by Ray Rigby (1916-1995)
Produced By: Keith Williams
Cast: Jo Manning Wilson, Eva Stuart and Frederick Treves
23rd March 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Jackpot by Jill Hyem (1937-2015)
Produced By: Martyn C Webster
Cast: Valerie Kirkbright, John Baddeley and Timothy Harley.
24th March 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: The Ears of Dr. Jeremy by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Cast: Frederick Treves, Hamlyn Benson, Norman Claridge, John Boxer, Nicolette Bernard, Kevin Flood
25th March 1964
20.40-22.00:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan (1911-1966), adapted by Cynthia Pughe
Produced by Norman Wright
Mrs Elton: Eva Stuart
Philip Welch: Gordon Gardner
Ann Welch: Jo Manning Wilson
Hester Collyer: Rachel Gurney
Mr Miller: Eric Anderson
Sir William Collyer: Philip Morant
Freddie Page: Michael Spice
Jackie Jackson: Bruce Condell
Repeated on BBC Home 1st May 1966.
[Other radio productions: Year/Network/Producer/Actor playing Mrs Elton]
1957 rpt 1958/Home/Val Gielgud/Joan Sanderson
1972 rptd 1975,1981,1985/R4/Christopher Venning/Judith Harte
2000/R4/Mary Peate/June Watson
2009/R3/David Timson/Auriol Smith]
25th March 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Alison by David Campton (1924-2006)
Produced By: Michael Bakewell
Cast: Kevin Flood, Jo Manning Wilson, Frederick Treves, William Fox, Kenneth Hyde and Fraser Kerr
26th March 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Advice from Father by Patrick Riddell
Produced By: Ronald Mason
Cast: Garard Green, Jane Wenham and Andrew Sachs
27th March 1964
14.00-14.45
In A Blind Wilderness by David Lytton
Forgiveness
Produced By: Charles Parker
Cast: Leo McKern, Basil Sydney and David Peel, Dorothy Gordon and Vernon Greeves
Repeated from R3 18th July 1955, 11th February 1956
27th March 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: A Handful of Crumbs by Tom Hegarty
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: John Baddeley and Jo Manning Wilson
30th March 1964
20.00-20.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: There's Nothing You Can Take by Robert Johnson
A cautionary tale.
Produced by Archie Campbell
Frank: Nigel Anthony
Keith: Keith Buckley
Eddie: Colin Campbell
Mrs Evans: Olga Lindo
Lily: Isabel Rennie
Mrs Grainge: Betty Baskcomb
Lorraine: Patricia Leventon
Mavis: Jo Manning Wilson
Mary: Valerie Kirkbright
Lorna: Olive Kirby
30th March 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Scent of Jealousy by Rosemary Timperley (1920-1988)
Produced By: Archie Campbell
Cast: Margaret Wolfit, Jane Wenham, Alan Haines, Isabel Rennie
31st March 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: The Test by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Cast: Margaret Wolfit
1st April 1964
20.40-21.40
Mid-Week Theatre: The Stag by Alun Owen (1925-1994), adapted by Peggy Wells.
There is to be a marriage.
Produced By: Herbert Davies
John James: Douglas Blackwell
Mrs James (Mam): Rachel Thomas
Graham James: Henley Thomas
Manw: Rita Street
Islwyn Morgan: Gareth Bowen
David Davies: Glanffrwd James
Captain Harris: Prysor Williams
Bronwen: Margaret John
Jennifer's father: Henry Jacobs
Jennifer's mother: Vivienne Brooks
Jennifer: Diana Walsh
[Also broadcast on R4X 2024]
[The play was first produced for BBC1 television in 1963 with Rachel Thomas as Mam and Henley Thomas as Graham]
1st April 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: It's Not the Game It Was by James Saunders
Tennis and other matters.
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: John Ruddock and James Thomason
[Also produced by Glyn Dearman for R4 in 1978]
2nd April 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: The Phoneys by Ray Rigby
Produced By: Ronald Mason
Cast: Ralph Truman, Andrew Sachs, Fraser Kerr, Isabel Rennie, Peter Pratt, Garard Green, Eva Stuart
3rd April 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Parrot Fashion by Jill Hyem
Produced By: Archie Campbell
Cast: Mary O'Farrell, Margaret Wolfit, Wilfrid Carter, Olga Lindo and Isabel Rennie
6th April 1964:
20.00-20.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Robbers Passing By by Michael Judge
Produced by Hugh Stewart
Richard Hoggett: Jeffrey Segal
Daphne Hoggett: Gillian Raine
Mr Tapley: Michael Logan
Mrs Pringle: Kathleen Boutall
Mr Thompson: Peter Claughton
Sark: Michael Goldie
Girl: Isabel Rennie
Boy: John Bury
6th April 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: M is for Moon Among Other Things by Tom Stoppard
Produced By: John Tydeman
Cast: Nicolette Bernard and William Fox
[Also produced for R4 by Paul Schlesinger in 1990]
7th April 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: The Praying Mat by John Hellyer
Produced By: Keith Williams
Cast: Frederick Treves, Ralph Truman, Wilfrid Carter, Garard Green, Peter O'Shaughnessy
8th April 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: And Lastly- Owen Stephens by Philip Broadley (1922-2008)
Produced by Archie Campbell
Girl Typist: Jo Manning Wilson
Vivian Matthews: Dorit Welles
Sgt Gregory: Denys Hawthorne
Owen Stephens: Peter McEnery
Inspector Morton: Richard Pearson
Mr Parkes: James Thomason
Charles: Charles Hodgson
Gloria: Sheila Grant
Sgt Williams: Andrew Sachs
Beth Graham: Gretchen Franklin
Deacon: Lewis Stringer
Woman: Hilda Kriseman
Repeated from BBC Home of 25th May 1963
8th April 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Cops Can Be Human by Malcolm Hulke (1924-1979)
Produced By: Peter Bryant
Cast: Stephen Thorne, Kevin Flood, Frederick Treves, Peter O'Shaughnessy, Wilfrid Carter, Margaret Wolfit, Eva Stuart, Isabel Rennie
9th April 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: The Tin on the Wall by John Pennington
Produced By: Ronald Mason
Cast: John Baddeley, James Thomason, Isabel Rennie, Frederick Treves
10th April 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: The Prophet by Tony Williamson (1932-1991)
Produced By: Ronald Mason
Cast: Kenneth Hyde, Trader Faulkner, John Ruddock, Eva Stuart, James Thomason
Repeated 12th July 1964
13th April 1964
20.00-20.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Knock Three Times Three by Charles Cordier, translated by Joanna Richardson (1844-1969)
Past was present, when the knock came three times three.
Produced by David Geary
Rabelli: Hugh Burden
A woman: Jane Wenham
A man: Brian Anderson
Kouznow: Philip Locke
13th April 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Appearances Deceive by Frederick Bradnum (1922-2001)
Produced By: Archie Campbell
Cast: Andrew Sachs, John Ruddock, Stephen Thorne, Austin Trevor, Olga Lindo, George Merritt and Wilfrid Carter
14th April 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: The Invader by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Produced By: Michael Bakewell
Piano: Les Reed
Cast: James Thomason, Trader Faulkner, Patricia Leventon, Hamlyn Benson, Valerie Kirkbright
Repeated 6th September 1964
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018-2022]
15th April 1964
20.40-21.30:
Mid-Week Theatre : A Store of Traditions by Michael Brett
Produced By: Gareth Morgan
Sir William Garrick: John Boxer
Leonard Scott: James McKechnie
Jean Scott: Prunella Scales
Brian Garrick: Gareth Morgan
Rose Scott: Moira Mannion
George Staples: Gabriel Woolf
Charles Walton: James Thomason
Iris Clark: Valerie Kirkbright
Charlie Maggs: George Merritt
15th April 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: On Reflection by Donald Smee
Produced By: Ronald Mason
Cast: William Fox and Margaret Wolfit
16th April 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: A Day in the Sun by John Slater (1916-1975)
Produced By: Keith Williams
Cast: Eva Stuart, Trader Faulkner, Frederick Treves
17th April 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Mint by Alan Gosling
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: Olga Lindo and Trader Faulkner
19th April 1964
19.00-19.30
Fear in the Afternoon by Bruce Stewart (1925-2005)
1 of 6: Brock Comes Home
Produced By: Betty Davies
Brock: Noel Johnson
Soapy Green: Ronald Baddiley
Edith Brock: Brenda Dunrich
Roger Brock: Timothy Harley
McGregor: Duncan McIntyre
Colonel Brain: Kenneth Hyde
Captain Laroche: Garard Green
Additional actors in parts 2 to 6:
Alan Haines, John Baddeley, Keith Pyott, Nicolette Bernard, Norman Claridge, Ralph Truman, Trader Faulkner, William Fox
Part 6 broadcast: 24th May 1964
20th April 1964
20.00-20.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: On the Pig's Back by Arthur Howes
Produced By: David Davis
Ma: Betty Hardy
Flo: Phoebe Hodgson
Tich: Leonard Henry
Snider: Geoffrey Wincott
Fat Joe: Denis Goacher
[The title means "to be in luck" or "well off" and is from Ireland - "ar mhuin na muice"]
20th April 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Out of Step by Jill Hyem
Produced By: Keith Williams
Cast: Isabel Rennie and Gordon Gardner
21st April 1964
23.40-23.55
Just Before Midnight: Darkness by Arnold Hinchliffe
Produced By: John Tydeman
Jack: Andrew Sachs
Joan: Patricia Leventon
Repeated 23rd August 1964
22nd April 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: After the Dream by J. F. B. Bunting
A cricket field
Produced By: R. D. Smith
Dr H Williams: Haydn Jones
Martin: Anthony Hall
Ann: Isabel Rennie
Stephen: John Pullen
Col Hyde: James Thomason
Major: Leigh Crutchley
Sergeant: Kenneth Hyde
Inspector: Malcolm Hayes
Ransome: Lee Fox
Jean Hopkin: Margaret Gordon
Also with Sonia Sandys
Repeated from BBC Home 25th September 1963
22nd April 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Ernests Horse by Nancy Jellicoe
Produced By: Ronald Mason
Cast: Norman Claridge, Mary Wimbush, Garard Green, James McKechnie, Isabel Rennie, Olga Lindo, Peter O'Shaughnessy
23rd April 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Ashwin by Nicholas Palmer
Produced by William Glen-Doepel
Stella Grange: Nicolette Bernard
Ashwin: William Fox
Mrs Beil: Olga Lindo
Mr Bell: Wilfrid Carter
Mr McNaughton: Hamlyn Benson
Barman/Announcer: Peter Bartlett
First Voice: Fraser Kerr
Second Voice: Stephen Thorne
Repeated 30th August 1964
24th April 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: A Nice Quiet Neighbourhood by Montague Haltrecht (1932-2010)
Produced By: William Glen-Doepel
Cast: Jane Wenham, Andrew Sachs
27th April 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: There Must Be Somewhere by Jon Holliday
Produced By: Michael Bakewell
Cast: Trader Faulkner, Patricia Leventon and Kevin Flood
Repeated 12th July 1964
28th April 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Needle Match by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Produced By: Keith Williams
Cast: Molly Rankin, Frederick Treves, Peter Bartlett, Isabel Rennie and Gordon Faith
[Also produced by Gerry Jones for R4 in 1973]
29th April 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Entrance by Gwyn Thomas (1913-1981)
A headmaster vs the Education Committee.
Produced By: John Griffiths
John Talbot: Dewi Williams
Patsy Talbot, his daughter: Gwenyth Petty
Hywel Willis: Bruce Mayne
Fred Heppenstall: Anthony Hall
Iestyn Phillips: Emlyn James
Christopher Lovell: Gerald James
Lucy Lovell: Barbara Cole
Joe Jessup: Frank Partington
Merfyn Feeney: D L Davies
Schoolboys: Olive Michael, Gareth Armstrong, Sion Probert
Repeated on BBC Home on 7th August 1966
[Gwyn Thomas spent many years teaching]
29th April 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Now and in the Hour of My Dying by Denis Butler
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: Molly Rankin and Trader Faulkner
30th April 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: A Nice Conversational Chat with Drinks by Joan Ure (Elizabeth Thoms Clark 1918-1978)
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: William Fox, Eva Stuart, Bruce Beeby, Nicolette Bernard, Jo Manning Wilson
1st May 1964
23.40-23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Dog Hill by Ray Jenkins (1935-2023)
Produced By: John Gibson
Cast: Garard Green and James Thomason
[The last JBM in this first run. Several plays were repeated later in 1964, but the next series had to wait until 1978 on R4.]
4th May 1964
The time slot for Just Before Midnight was occupied by "Music to Midnight", on prior dates this was "Music Before Midnight" concluding at 23.40.
6th May 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Mind My Wheel by Alan Cowan
Produced By: R. D. Smith
The perils of a teacher driving to school.
Arthur Spencer: Leigh Crutchley
Freda Spencer: Lynn Carson
Michael Spencer: Andrew Irvine
Mr Woolley: Ian Lubbock
Mr Saul: Timothy West
Penn: Michael Deacon
Blackie: Glyn Dearman
Mr Magill: John Baddeley
Mr Widgery: Andrew Sachs
Headmaster: John Sharp
Repeated from BBC Home 3rd August 1963
13th May 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Luck of the Draw by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Produced by Martyn C Webster
Mrs Green: Mary O'Farrell
Joe: Geoffrey Matthews
Arthur Green: Lewis Stringer
Uncle Fred: Wilfrid Carter
Gloria: Jo Manning Wilson
Mrs Deveraux: Olga Lindo
Jenny Millar: Jane Wenham
Woman: Vivienne Chatterton
Traveller: Bruce Beeby
Woman at Station: Eva Stuart
Barman: Glyn Dearman
Repeated on BBC Home 14th May 1966
20th May 1964
20.40-21.28:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Witness by John Lucarotti (1926-1994)
Produced By: David Geary
Joe Craddock: George Merritt
Mackay: Trader Faulkner
Paul Harbison: Charles Hyatt
Mrs Rogers: Hilary Mason
Mr Prochezki: Frederick Schrecker
Radio Announcer: Bruce Wyndham
P C Jackson: Dan Meaden
Sergeant Williams: Hamlyn Benson
P C Smith: Martin Jarvis
Inspector Levitt: Terence de Marney
Banning: Brian Rawlinson
The Woman: Ellen Dryden
Repeated on BBC Home 27th June 1966
27th May 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Loquat Tree (1961) by Barbara Vernon (1916-1978)
New South Wales, Australia.
Produced By: Audrey Cameron
Gwynn Summers: Roy Patrick
Lucia: Nicolette Bernard
Jim Emerson: Russell Napier
Joe Briggs, fruit-fly inspector: Bruce Wightman
Marian Emerson: Brenda Dunrich
John Emerson: Gordon Gardner
Bill, a drover: Trader Faulkner
Nell Munro: Paddy Turner
Allan Munro: Bruce Beeby
[First produced for ABC Australia in 1961 and produced again in Australia in 1962, 1965 and 1970.]
[A photocopy script of the play is held at the University of Queensland Fryer Library ref H1807]
31st May 1964
19.00-19.30
Sanctuary Isle (1962) by Bill Knox (1928-1999)
1 of 6: Death and a Tern
Produced By: James Crampsey (episodes 2-6 were produced by Stewart Conn)
Willie MacPherson: Bryden Murdoch
Chief Det Ins Colin Thane: Duncan McIntyre
Detective Inspector Phil Moss: John Grieve
Edgar Hollis: Douglas Murchie
Inspector Davidson: Michael O'Halloran
Sergeant Stewart: Michael Elder
Superintendent Laurence: Gerard Slevin
Royan Sonders: Martin Heller
Finn Preston: Victor Carin
Gwen Preston: Morag Forsyth
also with Gwyneth Guthrie, Charles Baptiste, Richard Findlay and James MacKenzie
Additional actors in parts 2-6:
Alex MacKenzie, Brian Carey, Callum Mill, David Kinnaird, Irene Sunters, Jean Taylor Smith, Joyce Allan
Part 6 broadcast: 5th July 1964
[There were 23 books in the series featuring DI Phil Moss and CDI Thane, 1957-1999]
[Bill Knox was a journalist who spent time as a crime reporter.]
3rd June 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: A Choice of Treacheries by David Rush
A schoolmaster wants to be the Headmaster.
Produced By: Eileen Cullen
Robert Hayes: Richard Hurndall
Brenda Hayes: Margaret Ward
Creighton: Geoffrey Wincott
Jenny: Patricia Leventon
Mrs Barker: Joan Ingram
Mrs Gregory: Jo Manning Wilson
Colonel Joliffe: William Fox
Warren: Norman Claridge
Richards: John Boxer
Delaware: Peter Pratt
Terry: Colin Stuart-Neil
Policewoman: Moira Mannion
Repeated from BBC Home 21st September 1963
Repeated BBC Home 16th December 1965
10th June 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Mixture for Murder by Redmond Macdonogh (based on an idea by Wendy Moxon)
A widower with a daughter remarries.
Produced By: John Gibson
Nicholas Gunther: Norman Claridge
Penelope Gunther: Gudrun Ure
Jill Gunther: Adrienne Poster
Mark Neilson: Frederick Treves
Inspector Curtis: Peter Pratt
Superintendent Lovell: Roger Swaine
Dr Jamieson: Godfrey Kenton
Also with Patricia Leventon, Gordon Faith and Godfrey Kenton
12th June 1964:
19.31-20.00:
Requiem for a Nobody by Gene Crowley
Produced By: Vernon Harris
Detective-Inspector Calloway: Ian Wallace
Sergeant Budd: Morton Smith
Henry Stanton: Noel Johnson
Eve Stanton: Helen Lindsay
Mr Rolt: Derek Birch
Potter: Sidney Vivian
17th June 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Panther Larkin by Simon Raven (1927-2001)
Cricket.
Produced By: Richard Imison
Radio Commentator: Fraser Kerr
George Hornby: Wilfrid Carter
Jenny Larkin: Dorothy White
Sir Humphrey Smithson: Bruce Beeby
Sydney Watts: Frederick Treves
Andrew Lomax: Douglas Blackwell
Herbert Grind: Peter Bartlett
William Barlow: William Fox
Roy Panther Larkin: Nigel Anthony
Lady Smithson: Margaret Wolfit
Night Editor: Andrew Sachs
19th June 1964
19.31-20.00
Redder than Red by Gene Crowley
Is there a Communist spy?
Produced By: Vernon Harris
Ginger Stevens: Ronald Baddiley
Johnny Kelly: Kevin Brennan
Dr Franz Herter: John Bluthal
Gordon Travers: Eric Phillips
Colonel Kalinsky: George Pravda
Major Young: John Graham
Captain Klein: Henry Stamper
24th June 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Letter From a Lady by Berkely Mather
Produced by John Tydeman
Ma Tante: Margot Boyd
Pentreath: Geoffrey Matthews
Sir Benley Hesketh: George Curzon
Lilian, his wife: Elaine Montgomerie
Mrs Hogarth: Joanna Hopkins
Bannerjee: Kristopher Kum
Tina: Patricia Leventon
Repeated from 15th (Home) and 24th(Light) June 1963
Repeated on BBC Home on 19th October 1966
[Also produced by John Cardy for R4 in 1973 with Ursula Mohan as Tina]
26th June 1964
19.31-20.00
My Brother's Keeper by Gene Crowley
Bad weather and a remote house...
Produced By: Vernon Harris
Charles Lavery: Geoffrey Lewis
Beatrice Lavery: Christina Gray
Miles Anderson: Wilfred Babbage
Henry Anderson: Maurice Denham
Dr Marsh: Humphrey Morton
Police Sgt: Preston Lockwood
1st July 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Close One by Joyce Merrick
Produced By: Alfred Bradley
Frank Dakin: Wilfred Pickles
Olive Dakin: Joyce Adcock
Myra Fletcher: Mary Quinn
Arthur Sutton: Anthony Collin
Ted Moffat: Ray Mort
Repeated from BBC Home 22nd January 1964
3rd July 1964
19.31-20.00
Bask in the Shadow by Gene Crowley
Produced By: Vernon Harris
Scotty Scott: Jeffrey Segal
Mike Magill: Ronald Wilson
Carole Dexter: Peggy Cameron
Lawrence Baines: Alan Wheatley
Samuel Mendoza: John Gabriel
Steve Howard: David Graham
8th July 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Devil Finds Work by Roger Dixon
Produced By: Peter Bryant
Harry Fentress: Melvyn Hayes
Sybil Vaughan: Gwendolyn Watts
Mrs Fentress: Betty Baskcomb
Henry Molinaux: Rolf Lefebvre
Ruth Morgan: Jane Wenham
Police Inspector: Kevin Stoney
10th July 1964
19.31-20.00
Justice is for Everyone by Gene Crowley
An escaped prisoner.
Produced By: Vernon Harris
Michael Ackland, QC: Norman Shelley
Helen Ackland: Olive Gregg
Gregory: Sydney Tafler
Harry/ Sergeant Tanner: John Baker
Joe/ Bradley/ Lorry Driver: John Cazabon
Elsie: Ella Milne
Prison Governor/ Police Sergeant: Eric Phillips
News Reader/ Inspector Baker: Lionel Gamlin
15th July 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: A Question of Loving by Joan O'Connor and Cecily Finn
Produced By: Michael Bukht (1941-2011)
Keith Harris: Nigel Anthony
Brian Wade: Glyn Dearman
Alan Mason: David Spenser
Lilian Mason: Eva Stuart
John Mason: William Eedle
Gloria Higgs: Valerie Kirkbright
Carol Royds: Petronella Barker
Mr Corder: James Thomason
Mrs Peters: Isabel Rennie
Police Constable: Peter Bartlett
Hospital Sister: Isabel Rennie
Repeated from BBC Home 19th February 1964
Repeated 7th September 1966
17th July 1964
19.31-20.00
Design for Accident by Gene Crowley
Produced By: Vernon Harris
Lance Turnhill: Richard Hurndall
John McQuail: Russell Napier
Evelyn McQuail: Cecile Chevreaux
Detective Inspector Jennings: Arnold Bell
Markwell: Ian Frost
Gypsy Bob: Stephen Jack
22nd July 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Well-Dressed Man by Frederic Raphael
The perils of a witness.
Produced by Archie Campbell
Newscaster: Philip Guard
Leybourne: Arthur Lawrence
Philip: Rolf Lefebvre
Salesman: Gordon Gardner
Mrs Glaister: Gladys Spencer
Secretary: Elaine Mitchell
Basil: John Pullen
Vivienne: Joan Matheson
Dinsdale: Garard Green
Matheson: Norman Claridge
Usher: Glyn Dearman
Foreman: Philip Guard
Judge: John Ruddock
Inspector Dwyer: Michael Kilgarriff
Jenks: Cyril Shaps
Reporter: Bruce Beeby
24th July 1964
19.31-20.00
The Law's Delay by Gene Crowley
Produced By: Vernon Harris
Mark Benton: Geoffrey Lewis
Sylvia Benton: Joy Shelton
Simon Fairley: Ronald Baddiley
Inspector South: David Nettheim
Denby: Stephen Jack
29th July 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Wednesday Caller by Lynne Reid Banks (1929-2024)
Produced By: Betty Davies
Alice Richards. Mary O'Farrell
Mrs Wigginton: Janet Burnell
Lavinia: Jill Hyem
Mrs Beatty: Ella Milne
Denise: Jo Manning Wilson
Sarah: Valerie Kirkbright
Nigel: Peter Bartlett
Jay: Glyn Dearman
Electrician: Gordon Faith
Andrew: Kenneth Shanley
Repeated from BBC Home of 4th March 1964
Repeated on BBC Home on 17th June 1967
31st July 1964
19.31-20.00
Clear as Crystal by Gene Crowley
Reading the future.
Produced By: Vernon Harris
Michael Preston: Richard Hurndall
Susan Preston: Olive Gregg
Lester Collins: Guy Kingsley Poynter
Jerry Fry: John Baddeley
Joe Maguire: Jeffrey Segal
Helen Maguire: Ella Milne
Police Constable: Morton Smith
3rd August 1964
20.00-20.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Gold Watch by Victor Pemberton
Produced By: Audrey Cameron
Mr Skinner: Godfrey Kenton
Gladys Davis his secretary: Meg Wynn Owen
Stan Parks: James Thomason
Pam, the office girl: Angela Munnion
George Moffatt: Frank Duncan
Vera, Stan's daughter: Beverley Dunn
Mollie Parks, Stan's wife: Mary O'Farrell
Mr Dudley: Wilfred Babbage
Paul, Gladys's boyfriend: Nigel Anthony
Repeated from BBC Home of 22nd July 1961 and 18th December 1962.
5th August 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Assault by George Archbold
No means No.
Produced By: Charles Lamb
Dorothy Hopner: Sian Davies
James Bartholomew: Glyn Dearman
Deborah Bartholomew: Jane Wenham
Mrs Bartholomew: Molly Rankin
Agnes Hopner: Ella Milne
Albert Hopner: Charles Lamb
Mr Bartholomew: Ralph Truman
Keith Lawrence: Philip Guard
Police Constable: Kevin Flood
Customers: Norman Claridge, Catherine Nangle, Gladys Spencer
[Originally a tv play, not found on BBC. ]
7th August 1964
19.31-20.00
The Abbey Grange (1904) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), adapted by Michael Hardwick.
Produced By: Robin Midgley
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Stanley Hopkins: Hugh Dickson
Lady Brackenstall: Josephine Price
Theresa: Coral Fairweather
Manager: Douglas Storm
Croker: Peter Claughton
Repeated from 21st August 1962
[Also broadcast on R4X 2019-2022]
10th August 1964
20.00-20.30
The Consuls by Lester Powell
1 of 12
Incidents in the work of a consul in Italy.
Produced By: R. D. Smith
Jane Cross: Mary Wimbush
Taxi Driver: Frederick Treves
James Flaxman, Vice-Consul: Patrick Barr
Miss Grieves: Lynn Carson
Francis Dyce, Consul: Ian Lubbock
Bernard Ork: Frank Partington
Steven Minnaver: William Fox
Hotel Porter: Gabriel Woolf
Telephonist: Jo Manning Wilson
Herb Lillie: Peter Marinker
Part 12 broadcast 26th October 1964
12th August 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Awakening by Billy Thatcher
Tom was thinking too much of his business and too little of his marriage, and Linda was bored and unhappy. A familiar-and dangerous — situation.....
Produced By: Betty Davies
Linda: Margaret Ward
Tom: Derek Blomield
Millicent: Gillian Maude
James: Garard Green
Janice: Nicolette Bernard
Mrs Macgregor: Mairri Russell
Repeated from BBC Home of 18th March 1964
Repeated on 18th May 1966
14th August 1964
19.31-20.00
The Mazarin Stone (1921) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), adapted by Michael Hardwick.
Violin: Sydney Humphreys
Produced By: Robin Midgley
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Billy: John Baddeley
Count Sylvius: Francis de Wolff
Sam Merton: Peter Pratt
Constable: James Thomason
Lord Cantlemere: Noel Iliff
Repeated from 4th September 1962
Repeated on R4 16th March 1967, 15th April 1974
[Also broadcast on R4X 2019-2022]
19th August 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre : Day After Tomorrow by Frank Baker (1908-1983)
A pensioner living in one room.
Poems by Katharine Carr
Produced by Charles Lefeaux
Geoffrey Sims: John Rye
Linda Carr: Carol Marsh
Peter O'Connor: Harry Hutchinson
Amy Carr: Margaret Rutherford
Mrs Finch: Mary O'Farrell
Mrs Deakin: Joan Hickson
Dr Thomas: John Humphry
Mr Deakin: Derek Birch
Leslie: Malcolm Hayes
Suzy: Freda Dowie
Mr Barker: Philip Morant
Repeated from BBC Home of 22nd September 1964
[Written originally for tv- broadcast on BBC TV 15th April 1960 - with Margaret Rutherford as Amy and Joan Hickson as Mrs Deakin.]
21st August 1964
19.31-20.00
The Solitary Cyclist (1903) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), adapted by Michael Hardwick.
Produced By: Graham Gauld
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Violet Smith: Jane Wenham
Carruthers: Norman Claridge
Mrs Smith: Gladys Spencer
Woodley: Malcolm Hayes
Mrs Hudson: Janet Morrison
Landlord: Peter O'Shaughnessy
Williamson: George Merritt
Repeated on BBC Home 16th February 1967
[Also broadcast on R4X 2014-2023]
26th August 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: There's No Escape by Gerard Stuart
Produced By: Audrey Cameron
Det Chief Supt Arnott: Patrick Barr
Artie Rickets: Garard Green
Stanley Millbank: Norman Claridge
Smithson, a cashier: Peter Bartlett
Det Sergeant Murray: Fraser Kerr
Fingerprint Man: Arthur Lawrence
Mrs Rickets: Olga Lindo
Sniffy Williams: John Bryning
Det Chief Supt Herrick: Frederick Treves
Alice Rickets: Jo Manning Wilson
Lydia Markham: Mary Wimbush
Anthony Frost: Bruce Beeby
Mrs Grubb: Eva Stuart
Repeated on R4 19th March 1969
[Also produced by German SDR in 1965 as "Es gibt kein Entrinnen" with Heinz Baumann as Arnott].
28th August 1964
19.31-20.00
The Bruce-Partington Plans (1908) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), adapted by Michael Hardwick.
Produced By: Graham Gauld
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Mrs Hudson: Janet Morrison
Mycroft Holmes: Felix Felton
Inspector Lestrade: Humphrey Morton
Colonel Walter: Philip Cunningham
Violet Westbury: Mary Chester
Sidney Johnson: John Boxer
Repeated on BBC Home on 24th December 1964 and 9th March 1967
2nd September 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Call From a Customer by Leslie Darbon
A bank manager's problems.
Produced By: Keith Williams
Gilbert Turner: Hugh Burden
Sally Turner: Mary Law
Charles Young: Stephen Thorne
Mark Carter: Philip Madoc
Merrick: Michael Goldie
Sheila Clarke: Petronella Barker
Miss Roslyn: Shirley Cooklin
Harry: James McManus
Sergeant Christie: Frederick Treves
Police Constable Tom Britton: Andrew Sachs
Superintendent Aitken: Kenneth Hyde
Repeated from BBC Home 23rd November 1963.
[Written for BBC TV- tv broadcast 15th April 1963]
4th September 1964
19.31-20.00
The Three Garridebs (1924) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), adapted by Michael Hardwick.
Produced By: Graham Gauld
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Mrs Hudson: Janet Morrison
John Garrideb: Eric Anderson
Nathan Garrideb: Charles E. Stidwill
Holloway: Harold Reese
Inspector Lestrade: Humphrey Morton
Repeated on BBC Home 28th December 1964 and 30th March 1967
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2007-2023]
9th September 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Seeker by Honoria Tirbutt (1921-2018)
Piano: Cecily Hoye
Produced by Betty Davies
Eleanor Kenrick: Faith Brook
Charles Kenrick: Patrick Barr
Philip Romilly: William Fox
Cressida, his daughter: Jo Manning Wilson
Marjorie Winston: Janet Burnell
Alastair Graham: Humphrey Morton
Lucy Graham: Isabel Rennie
Stephen Lucas: David Spenser
Desmond: Peter O'Shaughnessy
Johnny: Bruce Beeby
Brian: Alaric Cotter
Mrs Walker: Kathleen Helme
[Honoria Tirbutt published books as Emma Page]
11th September 1964
19.31-20.00
The Norwood Builder (1903) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), adapted by Michael Hardwick.
Produced By: Graham Gauld
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
McFarlane: Henry Stamper
Inspector Lestrade: Humphrey Morton
Mrs Lexington: Eva Stuart
Jonas Oldacre: Hamlyn Benson
Mrs McFarlane: Molly Weir
Mrs Hudson: Janet Morrison
Constables: Aleric Cotter and Fraser Kerr
Repeated on BBC Home 29th December 1964 and 23rd February 1967
[Also broadcast on R4X 2019-2023]
[Also produced by David Davis for BBC Home in 1954 rptd 1955 with Hobbs and Shelley]
13th September 1964
19.00-19.30
The Goggle-Box Affair by Val Gielgud (1900-1981)
1 of 7: Assignment for Pellew
Produced By: Martyn C. Webster
Gregory Pellew: Richard Hurndall
The Commander (Kitten): William Fox
Private Secretary (Beetle): Carleton Hobbs
Waiter: Gordon Faith
Lady Hannington: Olga Lindo
Humphrey Clymping: Charles Hodgson
Sally Anstruthcr: Patricia Leventon
Lilian Jukes: Grizelda Hervey
Rollo Gunn: Malcolm Hayes
Additional actors in parts 2-7
Andrew Sachs, Cecile Chevreau, Eva Stuart, Fraser Kerr, Frederick Treves, Gudrun Ure, Jo Kendall, Jo Manning Wilson, Mary Wimbush, Nicolette Bernard, Peter Bartlett, Peter O'Shaughnessy, Simon Lack, Val Gielgud
Part 7 broadcast 25th October 1964
16th September 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Never So Good by Irene Joyce Gliddon (1921-1997)
A boy and his parents have a disagreement.
Betty Best: Nicolette Bernard
David Best, her son: Jo Manning Wilson
Les Best, her husband: Stephen Thorne
Ben Simpson, a shopkeeper: Kenneth Hyde
Paddy O'Flaherty, a tramp: Kevin Flood
Inspector Costain: Norman Claridge
Police Sergeant: John Boxer
Police Constable Reynolds: Peter Bartlett
Inspector Cummings: Austin Trevor
Repeated from BBC Home of 27th November 1963
18th September 1964
19.31-20.00
The Sussex Vampire (1924) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), adapted by Michael Hardwick.
Produced By: Graham Gauld
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Ferguson: Stephen Jack
Dolores: Gladyes Spencer
Mrs Ferguson: Josefina Ray
Jack: Peter Bartlett
Mrs Mason: Margaret Wolfit
Repeated on R4 30th December 1964 and 5th May 1983
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2007-2023]
23rd September 1964
20.40-21.40
Mid-Week Theatre: The Border Star by Peter Brent
Produced By: Herbert Davies
BBC Wales
Lord Crain: Ivor Maddox
Bolster: Philip Phillips
Bryn Hughes: Douglas Blackwell
Gareth Hughes: Henly Thomas
Anderson: Ieuan Rhys Williams
Howells: Brinley Jenkins
Calvin Meredith: Hubert Rees
Patton: Ray Handy
Also with Die Hughes, Emrys Cleaver, Stuart Neale, Patricia Flowers, Shirley Webb, Diana Walsh, D L. Davies. and L. G. Durban
25th September 1964
19.31-20.00
The Red-Headed League (1891) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), adapted by Michael Hardwick.
Produced By: Graham Gauld
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Jabez Wilson: Victor Lucas
Vincent Spaulding: Peter Marinker
Duncan Ross: Frank Dunne
Inspector Jones: Gabriel Woolf
Merryweather: Eric Anderson
Repeated on BBC Home 31st December 1964 and 2nd March 1967 and 17th March 1983.
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2007-2023]
[Also produced by David Davis in 1953 for BBC Home with Hobbs and Shelley. Felix Felton as Merryweather.]
[Also produced by Martyn C Webster in 1957, rptd 1959, for BBC Home with Hobbs and Shelley. George Hagan as Merryweather. ]
30th September 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Afterglow by Denis Butler
Produced By: Hugh Stewart
Colly Grainger: Colin Gordon
Alison Fairlie: Mary Wimbush
Christabel Jennings: Joan Matheson
Hugh Jennings: Hugh Falkus
Gwinnie Jennings: Jo Manning Wilson
2nd October 1964
19.31-20.00
The Three Gables (1926) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), adapted by Michael Hardwick.
Produced By: Graham Gauld
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Steve Dixie: Frank Singuineau
Mary Maberley: Grizelda Hervey
Susan: Nicolette Bernard
Inspector Lestrade: Humphrey Morton
Isadora Klein: Selma Vaz Dias
Repeated on BBC Home 1st January 1965 and 23rd March 1967
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2005-2023]
7th October 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Years of Discretion by Honoria Tirbutt (1921-2018)
Produced By: Betty Davies
Andrew Preston: Frank Duncan
Martin Preston: Gordon Gardner
Nicola Walker: Sian Davies
Joyce Preston: Cecile Chevreau
Elizabeth Walker: Mary Wimbush
Roland Walker: Humphrey Morton
Stephen Barrett: Philip Morant
Policeman: Stephen Thorne
Motorist: Michael Kilgarriff
Motorist's wife: Rosalind Shanks
Boy: Glyn Dearman
Girl: Valerie Kirkbright
9th October 1964
19.31-20.00
The Retired Colourman (1926) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), adapted by Michael Hardwick.
Produced By: Graham Gauld
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Barker: Denis Goacher
Josiah Amberley: John Ruddock
The Rev Elman: Garard Green
Inspector MacKinnon: Michael Kilgarriff
Mrs Hudson: Janet Morrison
Repeated on R4 24th March 1983
[Also broadcast on R7/R4X 2007-2023]
14th October 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Pincher's Double by Alun Richards (1929-2004)
Produced By: Herbert Davies
BBC Wales
Billy: Brian Peck
Shiela: Gwenyth Petty
Ma: Dilys Davies
Alfie Alfred: Jack Baynes
Spats: Wyn Thomas
Jecko: Brinley Jenkins
Doorman: Prysor Williams
Waitress: Vera McGregor
Sergeant: Leuan Rhys Williams
Constable: Ronnie Williams
Mrs Hepplethwaite: Vera McGrecor
Harry: Ray Handy
Sally: Margaret John
21st October 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Life with Coffee Spoons by Peter Preston (1938-2018)
Produced By: Charles Lefeaux
Joan Sharland: Joy Hodgkinson
Hugh Sharland: William Eedle
Sylvia Grey: Jane Griffiths
Alfred Thompson: Julian Somers
Paul Ingram: Howieson Culff
Henry Greensmith: Norman Claridge
Alice Flood: Olga Lindo
Jill Perry: Valerie Kirkbright
Douglas Whittaker: Hamlyn Benson
Sir Gerald Blaydon: Ralph Truman
Repeated on R4 24th July 1970
28th October 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: An Unbroken Chain by George W. O'Kelly
Produced By: R. D. Smith
Agnes Mason: Eva Stuart
John Mason: Sydney Tafler
Peter: John Dearth
Bert: Andrew Sachs
Shirley: Norma Griffin
Ethel: Isabel Rennie
Doris: Lynn Carson
Roscoe: Michael Kilgarriff
Bill: John Ruddock
Frank: Peter Marinker
Al: Timothy Harley
Steve McHinton: John Dunn-Hill
Peckham: Gordon Gardner
Sydney: Henry Webb
Stew: Leo Maguire
Inspector: Stephen Thorne
Sergeant: Malcolm Terris
Doctor: Bruce Beeby
Sister: Mary Wimbush
[This is the only reference to George W O'Kelly in the BBC Programme database.]
1st November 1964
19.00-19.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Hand in Glove by Michael Brett
Produced By: Graham Gauld
Mr Johnson: Basil Jones
Receptionist: Timothy Harley
Porter: George Merritt
Detective-Sergeant Hicks: Wilfred Babbage
Managing Director: William Fox
Cy Scranton: Ralph Truman
Emily Scranton: Mary Wimbush
Taxi Driver: Leonard Henry
Telephonist: Patricia Leventon
Announcer: Margaret Wolfit
2nd November 1964
20.00-20.40
The Maresciallo by Berkely Mather (John Evan Weston-Davies 1909-1996) and Victor Francis
Police work on the Italian Riviera.
1 of 6: The Leopard's Spots
Produced By: Hugh Stewart
The Maresciallo: Tony Arpino
Doris, his wife: Judith Whale
Ella: Tina Mullinger
Farrell: Jon Farrell
Arletti: Tom Bowman
Benjy: Frederick Treves
Galdi: Gabriel Woolf
Man in the bar: Ralph Truman
Additional actors in stories 2-6:
Alan Keith, Alan Reid, Andrew Sachs, Christopher Carlos, Doreen Andrew, Eric Anderson, Jeffrey Segal, Jill Booty, Jo Manning Wilson, Kim Grant, Max Brimmell, Nicolette Bernard, Nora Blaney, Peter Lindsay, Ric Hutton, Rifat Shenel, Roger Delgado, Trader Faulkner
Story 6 broadcast 7th December 1964
2nd November 1964:
20.40-20.30
Follow That Man.
Stories by different authors about Rex Anthony.
1 of 9. Your Move, Mr. Anthony!
Authors: 1.Edward J Mason; 2.Eddie Maguire; 3.John P Wynn; 4.Lawrie Wyman; 5.Philip Levene; 6.Ted Willis; 7.Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin; 8.Gale Pedrick; 9.Frank Muir and Denis Norden
Script editor: Gale Pedrick
Producer: Edward Taylor
Actors in this story:
David Jacobs. Diana Olsson, Jeffrey Segal, David Nettheim, Glyn Dearman, Peter Bartlett, Nan Kenway, Margaret Wolfit, John Graham
Final story, 9, broadcast on 28th December 1964.
[Described as a "thriller serial" however some of the writers and the producer are best known for comedy].
4th November 1964:
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Flat To Let by Andrew Sachs (1930-2016)
Produced By: Archie Campbell
Mr Cornish: Nigel Graham
Paul Whittaker: Gabriel Woolf
Mary: Penelope Lee
Man's Voice: Frederick Treves
Midge: Patricia Leventon
Mrs Noble: Gladys Henson
Nicholas: Peter Bartlett
Mrs Glynn: Hester Paton-Brown
Telephone voices: Anna Summerfield and Elaine Mitchell
Prospective Tenant: Alan Haines
11th November 1964:
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Character by John Boland (1913-1976)
Produced By: Anthony Cornish
BBC Midlands
Henry Tupman: Chris Gittins
Alfred Tupman: Timothy Harley
Wilf Mills: Frank Veasey
James Barklay: James Thomason
Molly Elton: Sara Preston
Terry Litchfield: Alan Devereux
Also with Chrys Salt, Philip Garston-Jones, Vera Ashe, and George Woolley
15th November 1964
19.00-19.30
Final Curtain (1947) by Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982), adapted by Cedric Messina.
1 of 8.
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Agatha Troy Alleyn: Mary Wimbush
Katti Bostock: Dorothy Baird
Thomas Ancred: Frederick Treves
Nigel Bathgate: Kenneth Dight
Cedric Ancred: Andrew Sachs
Fenella Ancred: Rosalind Shanks
Paul Kentish: Martin Jarvis
Caroline Able: Dorit Welles
Patricia Kentish (Panty): Jo Manning Wilson
Pauline Kentish: Janet Burnell
Barker: Martin Lewis
Millamant Ancred: Olga Lindo
Sonia Orrincourt: Myrtle Reed
Additional actors in parts 2-8:
Francis de Wolff, Garard Green, Howieson Culff, John Ruddock, Kenneth McClellan, Margaret Ward, Nicolette Bernard, Noel Johnson, Norman Claridge, Patrick Connor, Ronald Baddiley, Wilfrid Carter
Part 8 broadcast 3rd January 1965
[The fictional Agatha Alleyn's husband was Roderick Alleyn. Roderick featured in 32 detective novels. Roderick made his appearance in part 4 of this serial version.]
[Other radio appearances by Roderick Alleyn were:
Artists in Crime- 20th July 1963
Death in Ecstasy - 13th September 1969
Death and the Dancing Footman - 27th December 1986]
18th November 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Rasputin Was Nice Old Man by Leon Griffiths (1928-1992)
Produced By: John Gibson
Slinn: Alfie Bass
Frame: Allan McClelland
Landlady: Dandy Nichols
Superintendent Dyke: Patrick Barr
Sergeant Mills: Stephen Thorne
P C Burrows: James McManus
[First produced for tv, as "Rasputin was a Nice Old Man" shown on ITV 14th July 1963, later produced by Canadian CBC TV 1965]
25th November 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Suspicious Mind by Philip Levene
Produced By: Betty Davies
Ellen Ridgeway: Betty Hardy
Man: Peter Bartlett
Louise Ridgeway: Sheila Houston
Mr Cooper: Peter Howell
Sergeant: Norman Claridge
Professor Galton: Howieson Culff
Postman: Gordon Faith
Dr Parker: Ralph Truman
Repeated on Home 7th June 1967
[Also produced by Norman Wright in 1957 with Ella Milne as Ellen]
2nd December 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Hill 160 by John Montgomery and Peter Hayes
Produced By: Norman Wright
Signalman Hardcastle: Donald McKillop
Signalman Barnes: Stephen Thorne
Major John Hall: Brian Haines
Captain Jock Macdonald: Fraser Kerr
Sergeant-Major Batt: Hamlyn Benson
Brigadier-General Michael Seaton: William Devlin
Captain Fox: Terence Brook
Plumley, the mess waiter: Le Roy Lingwood
Lieutenant-Colonel Wilcox: Philip Morant
Major-General Duncan, M C: Edward Chapman
German Infantryman: Gabriel Woolf
9th December 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: A Local Boy by Alun Owen (1925-1994), adapted by Peggy Wells
Produced By: Herbert Davies
BBC Wales
Prudence Owen: Anest Wilam
David Owen: John Waite
Mr Gerran-Jones: Ieuan Rhys Williams
Albert: Glanffrwd James
Peggy Williams: Margaret John
Tom Morgan: Alun Davies
Evan Lloyd: Phillip Phillips
[First produced for BBC TV 15th December 1963 and filmed for ABC Australia in 1964]
14th December 1964
20.00-20.30
The Dog Collar by Ursula Bloom
First episode of 4th series.
This episode:
Produced By: Audrey Cameron
Fr Mike Leary: John Graham
Fr Robert Tressland: David March
Mrs Bennet, their housekeeper: Marjorie Westbury
Mr Hawkins, the church warden: Hamlyn Benson
Mrs Martin: Nan Marriott Watson
Bill Martin: Timonthy Harley
John Dene: Gordon Faith
Emily Dene: Isabel Rennie
Episode 1 of season 1 was broadcast 11th October 1959. Season 4 was the last season and ran for 6 episodes.
[Ursula Bloom was the daughter of a church minister. A dog collar is the term used to describe a type of church ministers collar.]
16th December 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: A Cage of Canvas by Tony Williamson (1932-1991)
Produced by Peter Bryant
Jerry Simmons: Lee Montague
Al Cleary: Melvyn Hayes
Don Walsh: John Hollis
Vince Holdsworth: Patrick Mower
Corporal: Bruce Beeby
Sergeant: Wilfrid Carter
Lieutenant: Michael Kilgarriff
Police Inspector: John Ruddock
Police Constable: Alan Haines
Police Sergeant: Fraser Kerb
23rd December 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Cinderella Jones by John Harris
Produced By: Stewart Conn
Gray: John Baddeley
Addison: Leonard Maguire
Newby: Timothy Harley
Edwards: Frederick Treves
Ann Pamela: Ann Davy
Mary Jones: Sian Davies
Fred: Nigel Clayton
Tom Jones: Wilfrid Carter
Mrs Scotland: Molly Rankin
Girl: Valerie Kirkbright
Miss Brackenbury: Isabel Rennie
Chief Photographer: Gordon Faith
Circulation Manager: Fraser Kerr
Chief Sub-Editor: Peter Bartlett
[No relation to the 1946 film of this name or other uses of the name.]
30th December 1964
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Leading The Blind by Peter Preston (1938-2018)
A strike threat.
Produced by John Tydeman
Barman (Bert): Garard Green
Michael: Bruce Beeby
Kevin: Frank Dunne
Molly: Elizabeth Morgan
Lilian: Joyce Latham
Chairman: William Fox
Stanley Arkwright: Leslie Sands
Mike Donovan: Malcolm Terris
Lord Margram: Patrick Barr
Len Povey: Nigel Clayton
Sir Thomas Powell: Norman Wynne
Donald: Alan Haines
Fred Oldershaw: John Boxer
Sir Philip Copping: Eric Anderson
Flora Cameron: Doreen Hepburn
[First produced for BBC TV in 1962]
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Compiled by Stephen Shaw 2025
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(....thanks again, Stephen ...-ND)
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A note from Stephen:
These lists are only as accurate as the information available! The
Australian university web site I cross checked with only listed 11
episodes for season 2 of Pride of the Pacific, and a search on BBC Genome
only found 11 episodes... must be 11...
More study showed that season 2 actually had 13 episodes, which
makes more sense. Sadly BBC Genome listed these as "Pride of thePacific"
(missing space) which meant a search failed to find them. This
obviously fooled the Australian site I cross checked with.... as the
episodes were not numbered in the listings there was no cross check
available within Genome.
The drama series was not previously listed on Diversity.
Stephen Shaw, Aug 2025
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