Light Programme, Drama, 1965
Drama on the BBC Light Programme in 1965
(The Light Programme ran from 1945 to 1967. )
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1st January 1965
19.31-20.00
Pride of the Pacific by Rex Rienits (1909-1971).
Season 2, Story 11 of 13.
Continuation of Season 2 which commenced 23rd October 1964.
Short stories about the passengers and crew on the ship Cleo. Broadcast in two series of 13 episodes. (1964) and (1964-1965)
Produced by Vernon Harris.
Primary cast: Bill Kerr, Ian Wallace, Duncan McIntyre.
Story 13, final of season 2 was broadcast on 15th January 1965.
4th January 1965
20.00-20.30
The Dog Collar by Ursula Bloom
Season 4, episode 5 of 6.
Produced By: Audrey Cameron
Principal cast:
Fr Robert Tressland: David March
Fr Mike Leary: John Graham
Episode 1 of season 1 was broadcast 11th October 1959. Season 4 was the last season and ran for 6 episodes commencing 14th December 1964, the final episode was 18th January 1965.
[Ursula Bloom was the daughter of a church minister. A dog collar is the term used to describe a type of church ministers collar.]
6th January 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Separate Tables (1954) by Terence Rattigan
1 of 2: Table by the Window
Produced By: Norman Wright
Mabel: Brenda Dunrich
Lady Matheson: Molly Rankin
Mrs Railton-Bell: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Miss Meacham: Nora Nicholson
Doreen: Angela Piper
Mr Fowler: Howieson Culff
Mrs Shankland: Rachel Gurney
Miss Cooper: Mary Wimbush
Mr Malcolm: Noel Johnson
Mr Stratton: Glyn Dearman
Miss Tanner: Polly Murch
Repeated R4 4th February 1970.
[This production was broadcast as two plays, the second play was "Table No 7", broadcast on 13th January 1965 rptd R4 7th February 1970.]
[Story 2 Table No 7 (60 mins)was also produced by Pat Trueman in 1981 for R4 with Sonia Fraser as Miss Meacham.]
["Separate Tables" was also produced by Sally Avens for R4 in 2002 (60 mins) with Amanda Root as Sibyl and Marlene Sidaway as Miss Meacham. It is not stated if this was Story 2, or a combination of the 2 plays.]
10th January 1965
19.00-19.31
The Quarry by Jon Rollason (1931-2016) and Keith Williams
1 of 5
Produced By: John Tydeman
Penelope Shemley: Penelope Lee
Douglas Shemley: Barry Foster
Receptionist: Margaret Wolfit
Ruth: Isabel Rennie
Paul: Andrew Sachs
Simon Shaft: Roddy Maude-Roxby
Pinder: John Hollis
American: Peter Marinker
Reinke: Frederick Schrecker
Additional actors in parts 2-5
Hamlyn Benson, Olga Lindo
Part 5 broadcast 7th February 1965
13th January 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Separate Tables (1954) by Terence Rattigan
2 of 2: Table Number Seven
Produced By: Norman Wright
Mrs Stratton (Jean): Polly Murch
Mr Stratton (Charles): Glyn Dearman
Major Pollock: Michael Hordern
Mr Fowler: Howieson Culff
Miss Cooper: Mary Wimbush
Mrs Railton-Bell: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Miss Railton-Bell (Sibyl): Gwen Watford
Lady Matheson: Molly Rankin
Miss Meacham: Nora Nicholson
Mabel: Brenda Dunrich
Doreen: Angela Pipes
Repeated R4 7th February 1970.
[Table No 7 also produced by Pat Trueman in 1981 for R4 with Sonia Fraser as Miss Meacham.]
Please refer to 6th January 1965 above.
20th January 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Sunday Morning on the Hill by Vian Smith (1919-1969)
Produced by Brandon Acton-Bond
Arthur Whitlow: Brian Peck
Wanda: June Barrie
Chief-Insp Bennett: Ronald Russell
Det -Insp Sampson: Norman Tyrrell
Morgan Lannacombe: Michael Beint
Maggle: Dorothy Gordon
Bert Lacy: Roy Brimble
Mrs Lacy: Lois Hawkins
Mr Latimer: Bernard Fishwick
Jack Jennings: Edgar Harrison
Harper: Arthur Sibley
Craig: Valerie Newman
Driver: David Langford
22nd January 1965
19.31-20.00
Double Destiny by Geoffrey Bond
Produced By: Alastair Scott Johnston
John Fowler: Francis de Wolff
Claire Baxter: Cicely Courtneidge
Mr Medway: Jack Hulbert
Maid: Eva Stuart
Squire Baxter: Donald Wolfit
Philip: Peter Bartlett
Robert: Stephen Thorne
Sister: Molly Rankin
25th January 1965
20.00-20.30
Terminus by Leslie Darbon.
1 of 10: It's a Doddle.
Ten plays set in a railway station.
Produced By: Graham Gauld
Cast in first play:
Charles Debden: John Slater
Knocker White: Leonard Henry
Winston Banda: Paul Danquah
Ada Slade: Shirley Cooklin
Bryan Williams: Henry Davies
Joe Saunders: Derek Birch
Geoff Waterman: Stephen Jack
Doris Waterman: Olga Lindo
Nick: Geoffrey Wincott
also with Hamlyn Benson. Margaret Wolfit. Peter Bartlett, and LeRoy Lingwood
The tenth play was broadcast 29th March 1965
[Unrelated to the BBC tv series of 6 plays in 1955 by Lester Powell except having the same title, setting and idea... the tv series followed the people into their lives outside the station.]
27th January 1965
20.40-21.40:
Midweek Theatre: One Man's Summer by Peter J. Hammond
A prison suicide.
Produced By: Hugh Stewart
McLaren: Clement McCallin
Mrs Summers: Beatrice Kane
Officer Durrant: Frederick Treves
Governor: Patrick Barr
Officer Mooney: Edward Chapman
Eileen Mayers: Doreen Hepburn
Parrott: Tom Bowman
Mrs Mooney: Joan Young
29th January 1965
19.31-20.00
I Gotta Think a Minute by Gavin Blakeney
Produced By: Alastair Scott Johnston
Jonathan Fox, M D: Jack Hulbert
Det -Sgt Hargreaves: Wilfrid Carter
Mrs Fox: Cicely Courtneidge
Tommy Benson: David Gregory
George: Fraser Kerr
3rd February 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Night Run by Lester Powell (1912-1993)
Produced By: R. D. Smith
Porter: Basil Jones
Stringfellow: Robin Bailey
Victor: Wilfred Babbage
Clerk: Gordon Gardner
Angela: Kate Coleridge
Paul: John Boxer
Edna: Nicolette Bernard
Emms: Edward Chapman
Guard: Joe Sterne
Station Announcer: Eva Stuart
5th February 1965
19.31-20.00
Vibrato by Gavin Blakeney
Produced By: Alastair Scott Johnston
Gerald Duncannon: Godfrey Kenton
Conductor: Peter Bartlett
Bernard Silver: Jack Hulbert
Julian Silver: Philip Guard
Kathleen Farnham: Cicely Courtneidge
Joan Farnham: Perlita Neilson
Stage Manager/Alastair Bright: Harold Reese
10th February 1965
20.40-21.40:
Midweek Theatre: Final Payment by R. M. Bland
Produced By: Betty Davies
Alan Gresham: Peter Wilde
Jean Williams: Eva Stuart
Tony Williams: Martin Starkie
Finch: Philip Leaver
Inspector Fielding: Derek Birch
Doctor: Charles Simon
Hotel manager: Norman Claridge
Housekeeper: Gladys Spencer
Repeated from BBC Home 5th November 1960.
12th February 1965
19.31-20.00
Sins of the Fathers by Gavin Blakeney
Produced By: Alastair Scott Johnston
Capt John Osman: Jack Hulbert
Mrs Mary Osman: Cicely Courtneidge
Lt Peter Kanse: Michael Deacon
Flightmajor: Stephen Thorne
Chief Petty Officer Stiles: Gordon Gardner
Admiral Haynes: Ronald Baddiley
Capt Jypston: Peter Bartlett
Capt Fine: Alan Haines
14th February 1965
19.00-19.30
The Faraway Voice by Sheila Hodgson (1921-2001)
1 of 8
Produced By: Stewart Conn
Ann Carson: Elizabeth Morgan
Joe Liebek: David Bauer
Helen Shaffer: Margaret Wolfit
Robert Venner: Willlam Fox
Secretary: Deidre Turner
Projectionist: Edward Chapman
The singing voice of Jenny Pascal: Jane Wenham
Also with Frase Kerr and Malcolm Terris
Additional actors in parts 2-8:
Eric Anderson, Fraser Kerr, Garard Green, Hector Ross, Isabel Rennie, James Thomason, John Baddeley, Malcolm Terris, Marcella Markham, Marjorie Westbury, Raf De La Torre
17th February 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Loot by R. B. Amos
Who worries about principles?
Produced By: Martyn C. Webster
Dawson: Lewis Stringer
Arthur Reynolds: John Baddeley
Lela Frant: Barbara Mitchell
Parish: Hamlyn Benson
Coroner: James Thomason
Polly: Valerie Kirkbright
Inspector Hill: Frank Partington
Brown: Alan Haines
Stranger: Fraser Kerr
19th February 1965
19.31-20.00
More Things in Heaven and Earth by Gavin Blakeney
Produced By: Alastair Scott Johnston
Jimmo Mampouya: Earl Cameron
Dr Joyce Emery: Cicely Courtneidge
Colonel Bill Hadow: Jack Hulbert
African woman: Pearl Prescod
Doctor: Douglas Storm
24th February 1965
20.40-21.25:
Mid-Week Theatre: Ensign From America
by Gilbert Hackforth-Jones (1900-1982) and Margaret Hackforth-Jones
Produced By: Audrey Cameron
Adm Hinxon USN/Adm Roderick Jameson/ Quartermaster: Stephen Thorne
Captain O'Leary/ Helicopter pilot: Errol McKinnon
Ensign/ Ensign Martin Jackson, USN: Ronald Wilson
Flag Lieutenant, USN/ 1st Lt RN: Cavan Malone
Voice of Communications/Signalman: Antony Viccars
U S Naval Attache/ Cptn Peabody USN: John Graham
Captain Sebastian (Gritty Grange): David March
Deirdre Jameson: Mandy Miller
Welsh woman: Rosalind Shanks
Potts: John Bryning
[Gilbert H-J served in the RN]
26th February 1965
19.31-20.00
Dummies Sometimes Speak by Gene Crowley
Produced By: Alastair Scott Johnston
Elsie James: Cicely Courtneidge
Billy James: Maurice Denham
Inspector Grant: Jack Hulbert
Sergeant Mills: Patrick Barr
Sammy Reid: Christop Saifllpoiui (????)
3rd March 1965
20.40-21.35:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Sprog by Leslie Darbon
Workplace theft.
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Jim Parrish: Wilfrid Carter
Larry Stephens: Leroy Lingwood
Ben Davis: Basil Jones
Driver: David Graham
Peter Higgins: Nigel Anthony
Ron Stephens: Nigel Graham
Mrs Stephens: Patsy Smart
Ken Boddey: John Evitts
Alan Benson: Walter Hall
Alf Cox: Gordon Gardner
Bill Jackson: Gordon Faith
5th March 1965
19.31-20.00
Moonstrike by Robert Barr
A series of programmes on the work of wartime agents on special operations in Occupied France.
1 of 8: The Cradle of Resistance
The cast in the first story:
Produced By: Charles Maxwell
Colonel Maurice Buckmaster: Richard Hurndall
Michel: Richard Bebb
Sylvestre: John Witty
Jules: Ronald Baddiley
Also with David Graham, Nigel Graham, John Boxer.
Story eight broadcast 23rd April 1965
Series repeated on BBC Home commencing 8th July 1965
10th March 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Blood Test by G. K. Saunders
An adopted daughter discovers the hard way.
Produced By: John Tydeman
Mike Davies: Douglas Blackwell
Mrs Davies: Elaine Montgomerie
Helen: Elizabeth Proud
Jo: Beryl Calder
Holland: Frank Partington
Mrs Knowlesworthy: Nicolette Bernard
Repeated from BBC Home 10th April 1963
17th March 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Third Time Down by Gerry Jones
Produced By: R. D. Smith
Tom: Bryan Pringle
Rita: Anne Jameson
Peter: Nigel Anthony
Pat: Norma Griffin
Reporter: Leroy Lingwood
George Morton: Anthony Sheppard
TV reporter: Gordon Gardner
Announcers: John Snagge and Richard Baker
24th March 1965
20.40-21.25:
Mid-Week Theatre: Where the Party Ended by Giles Cooper
A bomb site.
Produced by Charles Lefeaux
Kenny: Garard Green
Jack: Michael Gwynn
Sam: Leroy Lingwood
Barry: Dudley Jones
Annie: Olga Lindo
Cafe Proprietress: Valerie Kirkbright
Maurice: Fraser Kerr
Clare: Susannah York
[First produced for BBC TV- broadcast 19th January 1960 with Dudley Jones as Barry and Michael Gwynn as Jack.]
31st March 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: House of Correction by Ross Salmon (1920s-2004) and Eric Corner (aka Sam Napier)
Produced by Brian Miller
BBC West of England
Benson: James Hunter
Cameron: Richard Armour
Maggot: John Crocker
Thumper: Robert Jennings
Winter: William Fox
Morgan: Dudley Jones
Khrushchev: Clifton Jones
O'Leary: Liam Gaffney
Edwards: Antony Viccars
Mrs Benson: Olga Dickie
Miller: Geoffrey Matthews
Fergus: Arthur Sibley
Tasker: Edgar Harrison
Wilkie: Michael Pollard
5th April 1965
20.00-20.30
Green Fingers by Ursula Bloom
1 of 5: The Beech Tree
Five stories about an old man who loved gardens, and the village he lived in.
Pianist. Frederick Stone
Produced by Betty Davies
Cast in first story:
Old Cookie: George Merritt
Ethel: Nan Marriott-Watson
Mrs Fairfax: Grizelda Hervey
Dalzell: Rosalind Shanks
Jackie Pop: Anthony Hall
The Rev John Charles: Antony Viccars
Mr Frazer: Garard Green
Story 5 broadcast 3rd May 1965
7th April 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Member of The Jury (1933) by John Millard, adapted by Daphne Robertson (Daphne Laney)
A trial for murder.
Produced By: R. D. Smith
Betty Maiteland: Eva Stuart
George Maiteland: Keith Williams
Clerk of the Court: John Rye
Lord Sloane: Douglas Storm
Counsel for the Prosecution: Tom Watson
Charles Wilson, Jury Foreman: George Merritt
Miss Travers, a Jurywoman: Isla Cameron
Ted Hart, a Juryman: Gabriel Woolf
Counsel for the Defence: Hugh Manning
Jean Martin, secretary: Freda Dowie
Mr Chatham, finger-print expert: Norman Claridge
Harris, a chestnut vendor: Nicholas Edmett
Detective-Inspector Carter: Philip Cunningham
Third Juryman: David Bird
Second Woman Juror: Janet Burnell
Miss Bassett, maid: Cecile Chevreau
Desiree Larbay, Lord Sloane's fiancee: June Tobin
George Hicks, a commissionaire: Jon Rollason
Judge: Charles Simon
Repeated from BBC Home 10th February 1960
[The text of the story is available]
11th April 1965
19.00-19.30:
Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery by Francis Durbridge (1912-1998)
1 of 6: Too Young to Die.
Produced By: Martyn C. Webster
Paul Temple: Peter Coke
Steve: Marjorie Westbury
Maurice Lonsdale: Patrick Barr
Den Roberts: Alan Haines
Lucas: Pat Connell
Inspector Lloyd: Wilfrid Carter
Charlie: John Baddeley
Margaret Milbourne: Isabel Dean
Dolly Brazer: Isabel Rennie
Stone: Frederick Treves
Green: Anthony Hall
Doctor: James Thomason
Additional cast in parts 2-6:
Barbara Barnett, Bruce Beeby, Fraser Kerr, Gordon Faith, Hamlyn Benson, Malcolm Terris, Nigel Graham, Noel Howlett, Polly Murch, Rex Graham, Simon Lack
Part 6 broadcast 16th May 1965
Series repeated on BBC Home commencing 7th October 1965 and on R4 commencing 23rd December 1985.
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2008-2023]
[There were 21 Paul Temple radio serials, plus remade productions, on BBC Radio from 1938-2006, this was the 21st.]
14th April 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Sovereign Remedy by Denys Kay-Robinson
Produced by Graham Gauld
Tom Scarsdale: Gabriel Woolf
Russell Finch: John Baddeley
Sylvia Scarsdale: Valerie Kirkbright
Nico Galletti: David Spenser
Carlo Romano: Malcolm Hayes
Inspector Poldini: Robert Rietty
Signora Panzetti: Margaret Wolfit
Dionigi the Greek: Peter Pratt
Cross-eyed Paolo: Hamlyn Benson
Big Giuseppe: Ralph Truman
Cafe Proprietor: Malcolm Terris
21st April 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Bank Holiday by Arnold Yarrow (1920-2024)
Produced By: Graham Gauld
Dr Raistrick: Geoffrey Matthews
Mrs Raistrick: Jane Wenham
Mr Greenwood: Norman Shelley
Mr Frawley: Ronald Baddiley
Mrs Frawley: Eva Stuart
Mr Davidson: Frederick Treves
Mr Price: Garard Green
Dr Mervyn: Basil Jones
Medical Officer of Health: William Fox
Also with Mary O'Farrell , Gordon Gardner, Gwen Berryman, Anthony Hall, Michael McClain, Joyce Wright, David Jarrett, and Jean England
Repeated on BBC Home 3rd July 1967
28th April 1965:
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: You Never Die Twice by Kenneth Bird
An actor goes missing.
Produced By: Anthony Cornish
Guy: John Humphry
Sue: Chrys Salt
Nicholas Stanton: Gordon Faith
Lotta Diemer: Nicolette Bernard
Landlord: Timothy West
Wilding: Philip Garston-Jones
Mr Pollard: John Bott
Saul Gardiner, undertaker: George Woolley
Vicar: Roger Milner
Weissman: Norman Cockin
5th May 1965
20.40-21.48:
Mid-Week Theatre: Goodnight Mrs. Puffin by Arthur Lovegrove, adapted by Peggy Wells
Produced by Norman Wright
Pamela Fordyce: Angela Piper
Jacqueline, her sister: Valerie Kirkbright
Ethel, their mother: Dorothy Black
Nicholas, her son: Jonathan Scott
Annie, the maid: Brenda Dunrich
Mrs Puffin: Irene Handl
Henry Fordyce: Norman Claridge
Stephen Parker: Felix Felton
Victor, his son: Leroy Lingwood
Roger Vincent: Murray Kash
Repeated on R4 17th June 1968
[First produced for BBC TV, broadcast 24th August 1961 with Irene Handl as Mrs Puffin, and Murray Kash as Roger.]
10th May 1965
20.00-20.30
Delayed Action by Eddie Maguire
A series of six plays with crime related plots, about Ex-Inspector Detective John Burns.
1 of 6: Wasps' Nest Egg
This play:
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Ex-DI John Burns: Huge Manning
Helen Burns: Eva Stuart
Superintendent George Wallis: George Hagan
Detective-Sergeant David Mills: Martin Jarvis
Sam Mason: Gordon Faith
Woman: Etain O'Dell
Jennie Mason: Patricia Leventon
Jack Clark: Bruce Beeby
Shopkeeper: David Lawton
Story 6 was broadcast 14th June 1965
A second series of 8 plays commenced on R2 on 12th August 1968
12th May 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Where the Wild Goose Flies by Bruce C. Fisk adapted by Bennett Maxwell
Pianist: Arthur Dulay
Produced by Norman Wright
Marilyn LaRue: Belle Chrystall
Henry Wildgoose: Victor Lucas
Emily Crlmble: Olga Lindo
Raymond Bentley: Noel Howlett
Ledbury: Gordon Gardner
Coulter: Gordon Faith
Percy Jenkins: Hamlyn Benson
Mrs Jenkins: Valerie Kirkbright
Cecil Oadby: Allan McClelland
Mildred Allen: Margaret Wolfit
Gladstone Smith: Garard Green
Tom Parry: John Boxer
Mrs Parry: Brenda Dunrich
[This is the only entry in BBC Genome for Bruce C Fisk]
19th May 1965: The drama slot was occupied by football.
26th May 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Dialogue in a Compartment by Michael Kittermaster
A railway first-class compartment.
Produced By: Martin Esslin
Winlaw: Austin Trevor
Cornwallis: Peter Claughton
Also with Miriam Margolyes and Hamlyn Benson
[Historic note: A first class compartment had seating for 6 with armrests, a second class compartment sat 8. The compartments were accessed by a corridor along one side, with an exit door to platform on the other side.]
30th May 1965
19.00-19.30
Over the Wall by Val Gielgud (1900-1981)
1 of 7: Where do we go from here!
Produced By: Martyn C. Webster
Eva Kroll: Mary Wimbush
Talbot Baynes: Frederick Treves
Peggy Martineau: Elizabeth Morgan
Charles Lutyens: Noel Howlett
Hugh Chester: William Fox
Rupert Ford: Val Gielgud
Pamela Lambert: Joan Matheson
George Lambert: Lewis Stringer
Tom Baldwln: Fraser Kerr
Brenda Baldwin: Jane Wenham
Narrator: Michael McClain
also with LeRoy Lingwood
Additional actors in episodes 2-7:
Anthony Hall, Gordon Faith, Gordon Gardner, James Thomason, Mary Wylie, Nigel Graham, Rolf Lefebvre, Yvonne Andre
Episode 7 broadcast: 11th July 1965
2nd June 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Mr. Bringle's Sea Change by Gilbert Hackforth-Jones (1900-1982)
London 1952: The House of Commons
Produced By: Audrey Cameron
First Member of Parliament: Hugh Dickson
Second MP / Brown: David Bird
Mr Ernest Bringle, M P: Hugh Manning
Twerton, his secretary: John Bryning
Lt.Comm Eeyore Smith: Richard Hurndall
Four-by-two a Flag Lt: Keith Buckley
Colonel Peter Peterson: John Westbrook
Admiral Sir Hildebrand Fore-Crosse: Norman Shelley
First Marine: Douglas Storm
Second Marine/Log: Tom Watson
GOC Troops, Gibraltar: Kenneth Dight
Number One, 1st Lt. of Winkle: Peter Wilde
'Sub;- Jnr Officer: Charles Hodgson
Cox'n: Haydn Jones
Also with Philip Morant, Jon Rollason and Michael Turner
Repeated from 30th June 1960 and 3rd June 1962
[Also produced in 1952 by Raymond Raikes for BBC Home with Norman Shelley as Hildebrand, Hugh Manning as Ernest]
[Hackforth-Jones was a Navy Commander and served on submarines 1920-1936.]
9th June 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Wormwood by Hugh Burden
What happened yesterday?
Produced By: John Tydeman
Martin: Hugh Burden
Catherine: Mary Wimbush
Caller: Anthony Gardner
Stranks: Robert Mooney
Mr Carlo: Malcolm Hayes
Repeated on R4 22nd May 1970.
[First produced for BBC TV, broadcast 9th September 1963, with Hugh Burden as "The Author"]
16th June 1965
20.40-21.45:
Mid-Week Theatre: His Other Self by Lionel Brown
Identity swap.
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Jennings: Alan Reid
John Fayne: Nigel Stock
Harriet Fayne: Grizelda Hervey
Frank Wallace: Heron Carvic
Policeman: Michael Deacon
Bank Clerk: Frank Partington
Bank Governor: Austin Trevor
Taxi Driver: Antony Viccars
Sam: Kenneth Hyde
Stephen Burgess: George Hagan
Sir Raymond Trevor: Martin Lewis
Repeated from 31st October 1962.
[In 1958 David H Godrey produced "His Other Self" by W W Jacobs, adapted by Lionel Brown, for BBC Light and Home, with a differing list of characters.]
21st June 1965
20.00-20.30
Searchlight by Arnold Yarrow (1920-2024)
A series of plays about a Missing Persons Bureau
1 of 4: The Beneficiary
Produced By: Graham Gauld
Captain Fitch: Malcolm Hayes
Burckhardt: Stephen Thorne
Adrian de Brie: Anthony Hall
Jacob Stern: Garard Green
Walter Brightwell: Ronald Baddiley
Patrolman: Wesley Murphy
Nursing Sister: Josefina Ray
Dr Valdez: Arthur Lawrence
Polos: David Spenser
Man: Peter Bartlett
Additional cast in stories 2-4:
Barry Savage, Betty Huntley-Wright, Derek Prentice, Glyn Dearman, Grizelda Hervey, Henry Stamper, John Boxer, John Gray, Jonathan Scott, Kim Grant, Mary Wimbush, Molly Rankin, Noel Howlett, Patricia Leventon, Paul Danquah, Peter Bartlett, Wilfrid Carter
Story 4 broadcast 12th July 1965
23rd June 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Hard Man by John Tarrant
Produced By: Audrey Cameron
Dr Kinley: Richard Hurndall
Paula Maddrell: Rosalind Shanks
Harry Christian, garage owner: Hector Ross
Fred, his assistant: Nigel Graham
Inspector Callow: David March
Jules Caradec, French police: Eric Anderson
Col Crellin: Walter Fitzgerald
Repeated on R4 10th January 1968
[Also produced by RTE (Ireland)- typescript ref P261/3847 (RTE document number: 3725, RTE box number: 219/2) held by University College, Dublin. ]
30th June 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Lovers' Knot by John Hynam (1915-1974)
Produced By: Hugh Stewart
David Cotton: David Enders
Susan Cotton: Lucie Jon
Edward Mote-Kingsbury: James Thomason
George Foster: Ross Hutchinson
Ann Foster, his wife: Gwen Day Burroughs
Carol Foster, their daughter: Miriam Margolyes
Archie: Allan McClelland
Ted Gray: Raymond Thompson
P C Carswell: Leslie Glazer
Police Sergeant: Fraser Kerr
Sheila Gibbs: Betty Huntley-Wright
7th July 1965
20.40-21.40::
Mid-Week Theatre: Entente 'Criminale' by Michael Hardwick (1924-1991)
Anglo-French co-operation
Produced By: Betty Davies
Emile Dubois: William Fox
Edgar Rare: John Baddeley
Newton: Andrew Sachs
Trumper: John Hollis
Manny Isaacs: John Gabriel
Na: David Lawton
Jake: Michael Kilgarriff
Maurice: Nigel Graham
Gerard: Anthony Hall
Sergeant Austin: Hector Ross
Chief Inspector: Basil Jones
14th July 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Eye Witness by Leslie Sands (1921-2001)
Post Traumatic Shock...
Produced By: William Glen-Doepel
Stella Lambert: Gladys Young
Meg: Joan Sanderson
Dr Crosbie: Ralph Truman
Mark: Michael Spice
Ellie: Sheila Grant
Cook: Vivienne Chatterton
Nurse Miller: Gladys Spencer
Frank Connors: Denys Hawthorne
Valerie: Eva Haddon
Repeated from BBC Home 30th March 1963
19th July 1965
20.00-20.30
Death In Compartment Seven by Kenneth Bird
Produced By: Anthony Cornish
Philip: Robin Hawdon
Sorkin: Keith Banks
Frenchman: Gordon Faith
A Priest: Harry Stubbs
A Doctor: George Woolley
Eva: Jill Stuart
Also with John Bott and Graham Weston
21st July 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Fair Passenger by Aimee Stuart
Produced by Martyn C. Webster
Meggie Craig: Isabel Dean
Frank Clayton, a film director: Michael Spice
Rosemary Rudd, a young film Star: Beryl Calder
Erica Tranmore: Mary Wimbush
Clive Rossclere: Denys Hawthorne
[Also produced by Charles Lefeaux in 1955 for BBC Home]
26th July 1965
20.00-20.30
The Rainbow Machine by Alan Plater.(1935-2010)
The thoughts of a Disc Jockey.
Produced by Alfred Bradley.
Steve Jordan: Bernard Braden
Repeated from BBC Home 25th September and 23rd October 1962.
28th July 1965
20.40-21.40
Mid-Week Theatre: The Ways of Love by Alun Owen adapted by Peggy Wells
Produced by Herbert Davies
David Enoch: Henley Thomas
Charlie Brogan: Philip Phillips
Stella Brogan: Margaret John
Peter Sefton: Bernard Thorp
Marjorie Sefton: Annest Wiliam
Manfried: David Garfield
Mark Price: Ray Handy
De Witt: Dillwyn Owen
TV interviewer: Shirley Webster
Woman reporter: Meriel Price
First reporter: Roger Nott
Second reporter: Dic Hughes
Girl reporter: Patricia Flowers
30th July 1965
19.31-20.00
The Edge of Fear by Gene Crowley
A series of mystery/suspense plays. Second season.
1 of 6: The Reluctant Witness
Produced By: Alastair Scott Johnston
Susan Tadworth: Valerie Kirkbright
Arthur Lockyer: Basil Jones
Tad Tadworth: Maurice Denham
Quintin, Prosecuting Counsel: Edward Chapman
Rose Madden: Margaret Wolfit
O'Malley, Defending Counsel: Hamlyn Benson
Judge: John Boxer
Witnesses: Fraser Kerr and Eva Stuart
Story 6 broadcast 3rd September 1965
2nd August 1965
20.00-20.30
Accidental Meeting by P S Laughlin
Problems that arise from staying at a hotel.
Produced By: Ronald Mason
Fred Lucas: Sam McCready
Sam Bell: Harold Goldblatt
John Marks: Robert McLernon
Bill Stephenson: Peter Maycock
Miss Grey: Catherine Gibson
Sgt Allen: Maurice O'Callaghan
4th August 1965
20.40-21.40:
Midweek Theatre: Manalive by Emery Bonett (Felicity Winifred Carter 1906-1995)
The burden of guilt.
Produced By: Betty Davies
David: Frank Duncan
Mason: James Thomason
Moya: Hilda Kriseman
Mrs Grant: Barbara Mitchell
Ruth: Sheila Houston
Grandfather: George Merritt
Cowman: Will Leighton
Dickie Lamont: John Pullen
Donovan: Denys Hawthorne
Repeated from BBC Home 31st October 1962
[Play manuscript held under ref 318/1, /2/iii at University of Sheffield Library, Bonett Mss.]
11th August 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: To Dorothy, A Son (1950) by Roger MacDougall (1910-1993), adapted by Peggy Wells
Will the wife give birth before the ex-wife? A story of inheritance.
Piano: Cecily Hoye
Produced By: Norman Wright
Dr. Cameron: Duncan McIntyre
Toni Rigi: Michael Spice
Dorothy: Polly Murch
Myrtle: Helen Horton
[Written for theatre production and then adapted for film by Peter Rogers in 1954]
18th August 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The First Command by Arthur Swinson (1915-1970)
Produced By: Archie Campbell
Captain James Howell: Frederick Treves
First Officer: Gordon Faith
Second Officer: Anthony Hall
A.B/ Disc Jockey: Gordon Gardner
Chief Engineer: John Rae
Second Engineer/Telephone Operator: Alan Barry
Chief Radio Officer: Michael Kilgarriff
Second Radio Officer: Colin Campbell
Steward: Peter Bartlett
Colonel Wymer: Basil Jones
Mrs Wymer: Lesley Deane
Mr Foxall: Lockwood West
Carol Starkey: Cecile Chevreau
Captain Stoneman: John Dearth
Christine, his secretary: Patricia Leventon
Mr. Pomroy: Eric Anderson
Sir Boyden Hodgson/Radio announcer: Lionel Gamlin
Tug Captain: Gabriel Woolf
Sally Howell, Captain Howell's wife: Miriam Margolyes
Repeated on R4 7th September 1973
23rd August 1965
20.00-20.30
Package Deal by Derek Bickerton
Produced By: Alan Ayckbourn
Lucy: June Barry
Geoffrey: John Linstrum
Mr Middleton: Peter Schofield
Mrs Middleton: Vivien Wood
Mr Fitch: Colin Edwynn
Mrs Fitch: Heather Stoney
Miss Price: Dona Martyn
Mr Prior: Frank Marlborough
Mr Mackenzie: Braham Rigby
Barman: Graham Rigby
Rafael: Bernard Gallagher
First broadcast on North of England Home Service on 21st February 1965 and 5th July 1965.
25th August 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Respectable Men by Roy Russell
The perfect crime.
Produced By: John Tydeman
Laurence Malcolm: Trevor Martin
David Weiner: Timothy West
H W Chadwick: Colin Gordon
Bessie: Betty Huntley-Wright
Betty Marsh: Cecile Chevreau
Helen Weiner: Pekoe Ainley
Carol Weiner: Miriam Margolyes
Josephine Malcolm: Joyce Wright
Flats' porter: Anthony Hall
Local cashier: John Dearth
First cashier: Peter Bartlett
Second cashier: Gordon Gardner
Mr Smart: Nigel Graham
Chief General Manager: Noel Howlett
Judge: Michael McClain
30th August 1965
20.00-20.30
Three Candles For Sebastian by Patrick Ryan (1916-1989)
Produced By: Keith Williams
Father Joseph: Kevin Flood
Michael Clooney: Gerald Rowland
Tony Paleto: John Bennett
Inspector Grant: Norman Claridge
Mrs Gethin: Grace Allardyce
Also with Stephen Thorne and Valerie Kirkbright
Repeated from BBC Home 11th December 1963
1st September 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Money for Jam by James G. Harris
Produced By: Peter Bryant
Hugh: Roy Kinnear
Maud: Eva Haddon
Donny: Michael McClain
Verda: Marie Adams
Captain: Allan McClelland
Cha-cha: Aubrey Morris
[The title has been used by several different programmes]
6th September 1965
20.00-20.30
Tell Albert I'll Wait For Him by Leslie Darbon
Little to lose.
Produced by Keith Williams
Jonathan Rhodes: John Ruddock
Maude Rhodes: Anna Burden
Miss Fennell: Joyce Carpenter
Dr. Simpson: Godfrey Kenton
Mr. Banbury: Noel Howlett
Inspector Harris: John Woodvine
Dr. Rushton: Arthur Gomez
Dr. Hockett: Michael Kilgarriff
Radiologist: Nona Philipp
Police Sergeant:.Robert Aldous
8th September 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Giants by Donald Shaw
Produced By: Anthony Cornish
Jones: Roger Milner
Lindley: Ronald Russell
Miss Williams: Penelope Shaw
Pearson: Richard Simpson
June Edwards: Jill Stuart
Charlie Edwards: George Woolley
Bob Edwards: John Baddeley
A Barmaid: Eileen Barry
also with S. Keith James and Charles Butler
10th September 1965
19.31-20.00
Agent X09 by Rex Rienits (1909-1971)
1 of 6: Curtains for Otto
Produced By: Bill Gates
Michael Slade: Robin Hunter
Jimmy: Anthony Hall
Mary Wallis: Aline Waites
Ben: Brian Hewlett
Miller: Ian Frost
Otto Gottlieb: Peter Claughton
The Chief: Malcolm Hayes
Supt Humphreys: Trevor Martin
Richard Wayne: John Dearth
Additional actors in parts 2 to 6:
Anthony Jackson, Bruce Beeby, David Healy, Garard Green, Henry Stamper, James Thomason, John Baker, John Gray, June Spencer, June Tobin, Laurel Mather, Michael Kilgarriff, Norman Mitchell, Peter Marinker, Reginald Jessup, Rex Robinson, Wilfrid Carter
Part 6 broadcast 15th October 1965
13th September 1965
20.00-20.30
Ways and Means by Noel Coward, adapted by Cynthia Pughe
The risks of gambling.
Produced By: Guy Vaesen
Stella Cartwright: Vivien Merchant
Toby Cartwright: Richard Briers
Gaston: Brian Hewlett
Lord Chapworth: Michael Kilgarriff
Olive Lloyd-Ransome: Mary Wimbush
Princess Elena Krassiloff: Jane Wenham
Murdoch: Peter Bartlett
Nanny: Anna Burden
Stevens: Colin Campbell
[Also produced in 1953 by Archie Campbell with Diana Churchill as Stella and Arthur Ridley as Murdoch]
15th September 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Spider by Brian Hayles (1931-1978)
Produced By: Anthony Cornish
Fred: Barrie Fletcher
Boyo: Graham Weston
Davis: John Bott
Spider: Walter Dalby
Nicholson: Eric Reynolds
Edie: Eileen Barry
A Worker: Charles Butler
Danny: Jon Rollason
20th September 1965
20.00-20.30
Runway Two-Eight Right by Stephen Grenfell
A series about London Airport and its people.
1 of 13: Mission of Mercy
Principal actor: Robert Hardy as Richard Mallory.
Part 13 broadcast 13th December 1965
22nd September 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Gaslight (1938) by Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962)
Do the gas lights dim or not?
Produced By: Raymond Raikes
Mrs Manningham: Barbara Jefford
Mr Manningham: Michael Kilgarriff
Rough: Raymond Huntley
Nancy: Patricia Leventon
Repeated on R4 26th October 1968, 19th February 1971, 26th December 1975
[Also produced by Annie Castledine in 1997 for R4.]
[Numerous other earlier productions of the play]
[The origin of "gaslighting" as a description of how someone treats you.]
29th September 1965
20.40-21.55:
Mid-Week Theatre: A Question of Confidence by Eric Corner and Ross Salmon (1922-2004)
Dartmoor Prison and a tobacco baron.
Produced By: Brandon Acton-Bond
Lighthill: Esmond Rideout
Charles Tewson: Jack Rodney
Harris: John Maxwell Pryce
Rees: John McEnery
Bradford: Michael Robbins
George: George Mattock
Len: Derek Hector
Boy: John Adams
Mildred Langley: Constance Chapman
Constable Martin: Roy Brimble
Lucas: Edgar Harrison
Sergeant: Arthur Sibley
Inspector Stanbury: Edward Thomas
Gregory: David Langford
Repeated on R4 27th July 1968
3th October 1965
19.00-19.30
Stay of Execution by Michael Gilbert (1912-2006)
1 of 6:
Produced By: Nesta Pain
Heeding, solicitor: Gabriel Woolf
Bridget, secretary: Cecile Chevreau
Macrae Q C: John Westbrook
Asst Commissioner: Duncan Carse
Supt Lacey: Frederick Treves
Harry Gordon: Barry Foster
Mr Henry: Oliver Johnston
Janine Mann: June Tobin
Additional actors in parts 2-6:
Alan Haines, Allan McClelland, Anthony Hall, Joan Matheson, Maurice Denham, Miriam Margolyes, Patricia Leventon, Patrick Barr, Peter Bartlett
Part 6 broadcast 7th November 1965
Series repeated on BBC Home commencing 3rd May 1967
6th October 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Price of a Sparrow by Roger Dixon
Produced By: Betty Davies
John Stevens: Michael Spice
Ruth Stevens: Elizabeth London
Carolyn: Jo Manning Wilson
Charles Lambert: Garard Green
First stranger: David Lawton
Second Stranger: Peter Bartlett
Grace Lambert: Irena Corcoran
Clerk: John Rae
The Minister: Eric Anderson
Security Chief: Hector Ross
Assistant: Timothy Harley
13th October 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: A Deadly Silence by Brian and Carla Cummins
Northern France, early 1945
Produced By: Joe Burroughs
Captain Gernhaust: John Carson
Major Franklyn: Patrick Barr
Private Barnett: Antony Viccars
Sergeant Newman: Hamlyn Benson
Private Stevens: Bruce Beeby
Corporal Long: Ronald Baddiley
Private Brown: Wilfrid Carter
2nd Lieutenant Thain: Peter Marinker
Lieutenant Groutman: Garard Green
Corporal Brunner: Humphrey Morton
Repeated on 2nd October 1968, and on R4 on 3rd October 1968
20th October 1965:
The drama slot was occupied by football.
27th October 1965:
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Murder is My Subject by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
A murder at a Police Training College
Produced By: Martyn C. Webster
Mrs Vincent, College house-keeper: Cecile Chevreau
Miss Gwen Regan, College librarian: Mary Wylie
Doctor Maddox, Lecturer: Frank Partington
Inspector Edward Harris: Tim Seely
Chief Constable Robert White: Hector Ross
Mary Collins, his secretary: Anna Gilcrist
Superintendent Bates: Simon Lack
Inspector Thomas Duffy: Nigel Graham
Sergeant Lucas: David Spesser
[Also produced by Betty Davies in 1973 for R4 with Margot Boyd as Mrs Vincent]
3rd November 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Loyalty of Lucy Dalrymple by H. Montague Jackson
Produced By: Audrey Cameron
Lucy Dalrymple: Marjorie Westbury
Stephen Fairfax: Michael Deacon
Lady Rosina Maynard: Janet Burnell
Sir Neville Maynard: John Ruddock
Helen Maynard: Valerie Kirkbright
Brigadier Ian Dalrymple: Denys Hawthorne
Repeated from BBC Home 3rd April 1963
10th November 1965
The drama slot was again replaced by football.
14th November 1965
19.00-19.30
The File On Richard Questor by Lester Powell (1912-1993)
A series of spy stories
1 of 5: Q Group.
Produced By: Betty Davies
Teekler: John Dearth
Nam: Garard Green
Ivor Grant: Michael McClain
Sir Basil Crouch: Derek Birch
Richard Questor: Duncan Carse
Susan Cleeve: Elizabeth Proud
Ness Sloan: Ronald Wilson
Clinton Parker: Earl Cameron
Baron von Bleck: Gabriel Woolf
Minister: Eric Anderson
Additional cast in stories 2 to 5:
Basil Jones, Eve Haddon, Gordon Faith, Malcolm Hayes, Michael Kilgarriff, Wilfrid Carter
Part 5 broadcast 12th December 1965.
The story continued with "Cover Story" broadcast in four parts commencing 19th December 1965
17th November 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Speech-Print Case by Leslie Dunkling
I shall kill you.
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
James: Gordon Gardner
Edwards: William Fox
Anonymous Caller: Stephen Jack
Harriet: Anna Burden
Duncan Laine: Geoffrey Matthews
Dr Jane Wilson: Cecile Chevreau
Professor Green: Noel Iliffe
Inspector Douglas: Douglas Storm
Also with Anthony Jackson, John Dearth, Miriam Margolyes, Eric Anderson
Repeated on R4 16th April 1971
24th November 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Hot Potato Boys by Alun Richards (1929-2004)
Produced By: Herbert Davie
Captain George Culver: Joss Ackland
Mrs Sadie Culver, his wife: Eva Haddon
Joan Culver, his daughter: Penelope Lee
Mr Oliver Handy, mate: Gabriel Woolf
Commodore Ronald Marlin: Noel Howlett
Mrs Millicent Marlin: Betty Huntley-Wright
Sub Lt Godfrey Marlin, son: Nigel Anthony
Pils, German cook: Eric Anderson
Hong Kong Anna: Cecile Chevreau
Passenger: Basil Jones
Donkeyman: Frank Singuineau
Belgian Police Inspector: Basil Jones
[Alun Richards served in the Royal Navy]
1st December 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: Proof of Murder by Leslie Fennell
Produced By: Audrey Cameron
Detective-Inspector Martin Hellier: Victor Lucas
Arthur Renton: Ronald Baddiley
Chief Superintendent McDonnell: Anthony Jackson
Bridgeport Police: Sergeant Grigg: Brian Hewlett
Detective-Sergeant Dance: Geoffrey Mathews
Superintendent Williams: Eric Anderson
Mrs Bennett: Anna Burden
Muriel Dawson: Elizabeth Proud
Mrs Hurst: June Spencer
Peggy Bullen: Mary Chester
Arthur Renton: Ronald Baddiley
Josie, a barmaid: Elizabeth Proud
Mrs Renton: Betty Huntley-Wright
Guy Wheatcroft: Henry Stamper
Harry, a mechanic: Brian Hewlett
Shop Manager: Anthony Jackson
[A Dutch version of the play was broadcast on VARA (Netherlands) on 7th January 1967, director Jan C Hubert (1909-1978)]
8th December 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Chopping Block by Vincent Tilsley (1931-2013) adapted by Peggy Wells
Produced by Betty Davies
Harry: Lewis Stringer
Sarah: Joan Sanderson
Jane: Isabel Rennie
Maisie: Joyce Latham
Fred: John Hollis
Mr Johnson: Kenneth Hyde
Nancy: Jean Marlow
Sally: Norma Griffin
Repeated from BBC Home 8th May 1963
[Previously produced for BBC TV, broadcast 23rd October 1960]
15th December 1965
20.40-21.40:
Mid-Week Theatre: The Nightwatchman by G. K. Saunders (1910-2005)
Produced By: Keith Williams
Fred: Leslle Dwyer
Sid: James McManus
Brenda: Patricia Clapton
Mum: Hilda Fenemore
Sergeant: Leonard Woodrow
Inspector: Douglas Blackwell
Judge: Derek Birch
Railway Clerk: Douglas Hankin
Post Office Clerk: Patricia Galllmore
Secretary: Eva Haddon
Cartwright: Eric Anderson
Simpkins: Wilfred Babbage
[Also produced for NRK, Norway, broadcast at 20.30 29th July 1966]
19th December 1965
Cover Story by Lester Powell (1912-1993)
1 of 4. Peace with Otho.
Produced By:Betty Davies
Ivor Grant: Michael McClain
Richard Questor: Duncan Carse
Ness Sloan: Ronald Wilson
Susan Cleeve: Elizabeth Proud
Clinton Parker: Earl Cameron
Sir Basil Crouch: Derek Birch
Newsreader: Godfrey Kenton
Michael Pitlack: Garard Green
President Kassin: Gabriel Woolf
General Pompolini: Robert Rietty
General Otho: Malcolm Hayes
Michael Kinsella: Denys Hawthorne
Lew Urban: Allan McClelland
Alice Pompolini: Cecile Chevreau
Additional actors in parts 2-4:
Basil Jones and Patrick Barr
Part 4 broadcast 9th January 1966
[Continuing "The File on Richard Questor" (5 parts) which commenced 14th November 1965]
[Richard Questor's adventures continued in "The Hunterdown Project" (4 parts) commencing 16th January 1966.]
22nd December 1965
20.40-21.55:
Mid-Week Theatre: Sailor, Beware! (1955) by Philip King (1904-1979) and Falkland Cary (1897-1989)
Emma knows what sailors are ...
Produced By: Guy Vaesen
Emma Hornett: Peggy Mount
Edie Hornett: Joan Matheson
Mrs Lack: Anne Berry
Henry Hornett: Garard Green
Albert Tufnell A B: Douglas Hankin
Carnoustie Bligh, A B: Fraser Kerr
Shirley Hornett: Patricia Leventon
Daphne Pink: Denise Buckley
The Rev Oliver Purefoy: Noel Howlett
[The story continued with "Watch It, Sailor" broadcast on 29th December 1965.]
[When produced on stage it was the first London appearance of Peggy Mount.]
27th December 1965
16.20-17.31
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. A musical version.
"An edited version of the long playing record album produced by Norman Newell"
Narrator: Dirk Bogarde
Alice: Karen Dotrice
White Rabbit: Kenneth Connor
Mad Hatter: Tommy Cooper
Gryphon: Harry Corbett
Dormouse: Fenella Fielding
March Hare: Bruce Forsyth
King: Arthur Haynes
Mock Turtle: Frankie Howerd
Queen: Peggy Mount
Duchess: Beryl Reid
Caterpillar: Ian Wallace
[The LP was a double album, originally 1965 HMV CSD1634/5, reissued on Music for Pleasure MFP 1267/8. Total running time 69 minutes. So not much editing.]
29th December 1965
20.40-21.55:
Mid-Week Theatre: Watch It, Sailor (1960) by Philip King (1904-1979) and Falkland Cary (1897-1989)
Produced By: Guy Vaesen
Emma Hornett: Peggy Mount
Edie Hornett: Joan Matheson
Mrs Lack: Anne Berry
Henry Hornett: Garard Green
Albert Tufnell A B: Douglas Hankin
Carnoustie Bligh, A B: Fraser Kerr
Shirley Hornett: Patricia Leventon
Daphne Pink: Denise Buckley
Lt-Commander Hardcastle: Henry Stamper
[The story continues from "Sailor, Beware!" broadcast on 22nd December 1965.]
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Compiled by Stephen Shaw 2025
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(....thanks again, Stephen ...-ND)
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