Ten-Minute Alibi

Summary: 1950 BBC production of Ten-Minute Alibi by Anthony Armstrong.
Theatre play: Ten-Minute Alibi by Anthony Armstrong (1897-1976) [more information]
Play synopsis: A mystery melodrama in which the murderer establishes an alibi by changing the time on a clock - and gets away with the murder at the end. Philip Sevilla intends to take to Paris, and then abduct to South America, the girl that Colin Derwent loves, Betty Findon. Derwent shoots Sevilla, concocts his alibi with the clock, and fools the police - but not Betty, who realises with horror what he has done for her.
Production history: Premiered on 8 February 1933 at the Haymarket Theatre, London, where it played for more than eight hundred performances. Published by Gollancz in 1933. Filmed in 1935.
Date of transmission: Friday 20 January 1950
Time: 8.45-10.15pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

Kevin Sheldon

Playwright

Anthony Armstrong (1897-1976)

Sets / Settings

Stephen Bundy

Cast

Title: Radio Times, 13 January 1950 (Magazine)
Linking notes: brief mention, p. 40; article by Lionel Hale, ‘The Hero is a Clock’, p. 41; listing, p. 43

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