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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 BrettViscount Goring
Charles Carson (1885-1977)Earl of Caversham
Erik Chitty (1907-1977)Phipps
Zena DareLady Markby
Michel FaureVicomte de Nanjac
Raymond GrahamMason
Susan HampshireMabel Chiltern
Penelope LeeMrs Marchmont
Margaret LeightonMrs Cheveley
Keith MichellSir Robert Chiltern
Magda MillerCountess of Basildon
Dinah SheridanLady 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
London
UK

Telephone

+44 (0)20 8008 2288

Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/

Access

BBC 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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