An Ideal Husband
- Summary
- 1969 BBC studio production in colour of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband.
- Theatre play
- An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 11 May 1969
- Time
- 8.15pm (82 mins)
- Series
- Play of the Month
- Channel
- BBC1
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Director
- Rudolph Cartier
- Producer
- Cedric Messina
- Lighting
- Jim Richards
- Playwright
- Oscar Wilde
- Designer
- Roger Andrews
- Costumes
- Judy Moorcroft
- Make-up
- Toni Chapman
- Sound
- Derek Miller-Timmins
- Script Editor
- Rosemary Hill
- Cast
Jeremy Brett Viscount Goring Charles Carson (1885-1977) Earl of Caversham Erik Chitty (1907-1977) Phipps Zena Dare Lady Markby Michel Faure Vicomte de Nanjac Raymond Graham Mason Susan Hampshire Mabel Chiltern Penelope Lee Mrs Marchmont Margaret Leighton Mrs Cheveley Keith Michell Sir Robert Chiltern Magda Miller Countess of Basildon Dinah Sheridan Lady Chiltern
Additional details
- Origination
- Recorded in studio
- Vision original
- Colour
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting; comedy; Edwardian drama; melodrama; politics; sexuality (and morality, politics etc)
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- An Ideal Husband (BBC, 1969)
- Archive
- BBC Information and Archives [more information]
Address
White City
Telephone
London
UK+44 (0)20 8008 2288
Websitehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/
AccessBBC Information and Archives is not open to the public.
- Title
- The Oscar Wilde Collection
- Notes
- Also includes The Importance of Being Earnest (date), The Picture of Doran Gray (1976), Lady Windermere’s Fan (1985)
- Commercial availability
- Released by 2 entertain Video
Print sources
- Title
- 'Classics on TV: Edwardian Drama on the Small Screen’, a BFI Southbank season + Screen Plays symposium, May 2014 (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/edwardian-drama-on-the-small-screen, published 24 March 2014
- Title
- A shot at Sinister Street (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- A. P. Ryan (Author)
- Reference
- The Times, 12 May 1969, p. 15
- Title
- Radio Times, 8 May 1969 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and article, p. 12, and article, p. 3
- Title
- The Edwardians: Play of the Month: An Ideal Husband (BBC1, 1969) (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/the-edwardians-play-of-the-month-an-ideal-husband-bbc1-1969, published 28 April 2014
- Title
- Weekend Television (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Stanley Reynolds (Author)
- Reference
- The Guardian, 12 May 1969, p. 6
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