Uncle Harry

Summary

BBC Television production of Thomas Job’s Uncle Harry, presented ‘from the BBC’s Welsh television studio’ (Radio Times, 2 May 1958, p. 19).

Theatre play

Uncle Harry by Thomas Job [more information]

Play synopsis

Harry Quincey, unlucky in love and suffocated by his quarrelsome sisters, poisons one sister and lays the blame on the other.

Production history

Performed at the Garrick Theatre, London in 1944 (this was not necessarily the premiere).

Date of transmission

Thursday 8 May 1958

Time

10.15pm (75 mins)

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

David J. Thomas

Playwright

Thomas Job

Designer

Charles Lawrence

Cast

Barbara Alleyn	Miss Phipps
Rona Anderson	Lucy Forrest
Derek Aylward	George Waddy
Michael Browne	Mr Blake
Peter Cushing	Unlce Harry
Dilys Davies	Roberts
Eynon Evans	Ben
Robert Hunter	Mr Burton
Gerald James	Mr Jenkins
Beryl Measor	Hester Quincey
Mary Morris	Lettie Quincey
Hugh Morton	The Governor
Gwenyth Petty	Nona
Hubert Rees	Eccles
Aubrey Richards	D’Arcy
Jack Walters	Albert

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

crime

Print sources

Title

An Unresolved Enigma: ‘Wicked Uncle’ on BBC Television (Newspaper review)

Reference

The Times, 9 May 1958, p. 16

Title

Radio Times, 2 May 1958 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing and article, with photograph, on p. 19