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Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?

Summary
This BBC production of E. V. Tidmarsh’s farce Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? was presented directly from the stage of the Whitehall Theatre, London.
Theatre play
Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? by E. V. Tidmarsh [more information]
Date of transmission
Sunday 21 February 1960
Time
8.00-9.30pm
Series
Brian Rix Presents; Laughter from the Whitehall; Twentieth Century Theatre
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Director
Wallace Douglas
Television Presentation by
Mary Evans
Playwright
E. V. Tidmarsh
Sets / Settings
Stanley Moore
Cast
Rona AndersonRosemary Vining
Ray CooneyThompson
Leo FranklynHemming
Elspeth GrayYvonne Vining
Edna HopcroftLucy
Larry NobleJames Hicks
Brian Rix (1924-)Lawrence Vining
Merylin RobertsMarie
Moray WatsonFrank Betterton

Additional details

Notes
Cast and credits from the BBC recording.
Play tags
divorce; farce; marriage

Audiovisual sources

Title
Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (BBC, 1960)
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.

Print sources

Title
Farce from Theatre (Newspaper review)
Reference
The Times, 22 February 1960, p. 6
Title
Radio Times, 1 January 1960 (Magazine)
Linking notes
brief mention in article, p. 2
Title
Radio Times, 19 February 1960 (Magazine)
Linking notes
'Laughter at the Whitehall’ article on p. 7; illustrated listing on p. 11

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