Learning on ScreenCatherine Parr
- Summary
- This BBC Television production of Maurice Baring’s short play Catherine Parr was transmitted for the first time on 7 January and again on 27 February 1937, in a short double-bill entitled Grave and Gay, alongside The Underground Murder Mystery, a dramatic sketch by J. Bissell Thomas which happened to be the first original script for television.
- Theatre play
- Catherine Parr by Maurice Baring (1874-1945) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 7 January 1937
- Time
- 3.52pm (12 mins)
- Series
- Theatre Parade
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Television Presentation by
- George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)
- Playwright
- Maurice Baring (1874-1945)
- Cast
Miriam Adams Alban Blakelock Lionel Dixon
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Broadcast again 9.11pm on Thursday 7 January 1937 and at 3.12pm and 9.00pm on Saturday 27 February 1937.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
Print sources
- Title
- BBC Television Programme Records: vol. 1, 1937-38 (Book)
- Reference
- London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1938
- Linking notes
- listing on pp. 2, 16
- Title
- Radio Times, 1 January 1937 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- Notes merely ‘Scenes from a play now running at a London theatre’ in the Theatre Parade slot, from 3.30 to 4.00pm on Thursday 7 January 1937.
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