She Stoops to Conquer, Part 2

Summary

1960 Associated-Rediffusion production of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer for ITV schools, presented in three parts. This part was no. 3 in the Played Upon a Stage series.

Theatre play

She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night by Oliver Goldsmith [more information]

Play synopsis

In this comedy the wealthy countryman Mr Hardcastle arranges for his daughter Kate to meet Charles Marlow, the son of a wealthy Londoner, hoping the pair will marry. Unfortunately Marlow is nervous around upper-class women, yet the complete opposite around women of lower-class, thus Kate ‘stoops to conquer’ by posing as a maid, hoping to put Marlow at his ease; he falls for her and they become engaged. The main sub-plot is the secret romance between Miss Constance Neville, another young woman who lives with the Hardcastles, and Marlow’s friend George Hastings, who also become engaged.

Production history

First performed in London in 1773.

Date of transmission

Wednesday 18 May 1960

Time

3.18-3.50pm

Series

Schools

Channel

ITV

Production company

Associated-Rediffusion (1955-1964)

Credits

Director

Roger Jenkins

Playwright

Oliver Goldsmith

Designer

John Clements (1910-1988)

Education Officer

Maureen Price

Cast

Margaret Courtenay	Mrs Hardcastle
Paul Daneman	Marlow
Jane Downs	Kate Hardcastle
Jocelyn James	Constance Neville
Tristram Jellinek	Hastings
Patrick Newell	Tony Lumpkin
Vivian Pickles	Pimple
George Woodbridge	Mr Hardcastle

Additional details

Later transmissions

Repeated on Friday 20 May 1960 at 3.18-3.50pm. The series was repeated in 1964.

Play tags

18th-century setting; class issues / differences; comedy

Programme context tags

schools television programming

Print sources

Title

She Stoops to Conquer (1960; rep. 1964) (Archive file)

Archive

BFI Reuben Library [more information]

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Website

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Access

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Reference

Special Collections, Associated-Rediffusion Television papers

Notes

File includes: booklet for schools, 1964 repeat; undated leaflets for, possibly, the earlier transmissions; contracts; internal memo.

Title

TV Times, 13 May 1960 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 30

Associated programmes

She Stoops to Conquer, Part 1 (Associated-Rediffusion, 1960)
She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night by Oliver Goldsmith
ITV (Schools)

She Stoops to Conquer, Part 3 (Associated-Rediffusion, 1960)
She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night by Oliver Goldsmith
ITV (Schools)