Private and Confidential

Summary

1961 Granada Television production for ITV of Miss Robinson by Elizabeth Baker, given under the title Private and Confidential.

Theatre play

Miss Robinson by Elizabeth Baker (1876-1962) [more information]

Play synopsis

The ingredients of this social comedy are: ‘an MP whose family has a dreadful secret, his private secretary who accidentally learns the secret, and the family’s attempt to hush her up by getting their youngest, and highly eligible, son, Horace, to marry the secretary, even though the girl is lower-class’ (TV Times, 13 May 1960, p. 16).

Production history

First performed in 1918.

Date of transmission

Friday 20 May 1960

Time

9.35-10.35pm

Series

Television Playhouse

Channel

ITV

Production company

Granada Television (1956-)

Credits

Director

Cliff Owen

Playwright

Elizabeth Baker (1876-1962)

Adapted for Television by

Gerald Savory (1909-1996)

Designer

Darrell Lass

Cast

A. J. Brown	Pollock
David Conville	Lister Vintage
Angela Crow	Ivy Robinson
Amy Dalby	Mattie Hine
Peter Halliday	Billy Arden
Gladys Henson	Mrs Robinson
Walter Horsbrugh	Doctor
Diana King	Agnes Vintage
Dinsdale Landen	Horace Vintage
Waveney Lee	Mabel Vintage
Hugh Sinclair	Walter Vintage
Pauline Yates	Miss Robinson

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

class issues / differences; comedy; politics

Print sources

Title

Granada’s Manchester Plays (Blog article)

Author/creator

John Wyver (Author)

Reference

http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/granadas-manchester-plays, published 4 September 2011

Title

TV Times, 13 May 1960 (Magazine)

Linking notes

cover image; illustrated article, p. 16; listing, p. 35