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Square Pegs

Summary
1939 BBC studio production of Lionel Brown’s comedy Square Pegs.Three of the cast from the first theatrical production in 1937 - Marjorie Mars, Hilary Eaves and J. B. Rowe - appeared in the television production.
Theatre play
Square Pegs by Lionel Brown [more information]
Date of transmission
Monday 16 January 1939
Time
3.00-4.30pm
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producer
Fred O’Donovan (1889-1952)
Playwright
Lionel Brown
Cast
Elizabeth Arkell
A. Bromley-Davenport
Hilary Eaves
Judith Gick
Gerald Jerome
Desmond Keith
Mary Lennox
Jack Livesey
Marjorie Mars
Kenneth Morgan
J. B. Rowe

Additional details

Origination
Live from studio
Vision original
Monochrome
Later transmissions
Presented again at 9.00pm on Wednesday 25 January 1939 and at 9.00pm on Monday 27 February (with James Mason in the role first taken by Jack Livesey).
Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
comedy

Print sources

Title
Broadcasting: Robert Burns (Newspaper listing)
Reference
The Times, 25 January 1939, p. 18
Title
Radio Times, 13 January 1939 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing, p. 16

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