Morning Departure
- Summary
- 1946 BBC live studio production of Kenneth Woollard’s drama, Morning Departure, set aboard a submarine.
- Theatre play
- Morning Departure by Kenneth Woollard [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 1 December 1946
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
Credits
- Producer
- Harold Clayton
- Playwright
- Kenneth Woollard
- Sets / Settings
- James Bould
- Cast
Ronald Adam (1896-1979) Lt McFee John Baker Petty Officer Barlow Alban Blakelock Leading Seaman Hillbrook Derek Elphinstone Lt Manson Ronald Fortt Captain Marshall Fred Groves Captain Fenton Cameron Hall Able Seaman Higgins Michael Hordern Commander Gates Anthony Hudson Stoker Snipe Patrick McNee Stoker Marks Nigel Patrick Lt-Cdr Stanford Robert Raglan Commander Whately Michael Rose Brackley John Stevens Lt Oakley
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Tuesday 3 December 1946.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- sea-faring; Second World War, as theme or setting; wartime, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Broadcasting (Newspaper listing)
- Reference
- The Times, 30 November 1946, p. 6
- Title
- Radio Times, 29 November 1946 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 35 and brief article, p. 33
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