London Assurance

Summary: 1963 Granada Television production for ITV of London Assurance by Dion Boucicault, presented in the eight-play series The Victorians. All eight plays were performed by the Company of Seven, a group especially formed for the series.
Theatre play: London Assurance by Dion Boucicault [more information]
Play synopsis: Comedy in which Sir Harcourt Courtly decides at the beginning of the Season to leave London in order to present his second wife to Society.
Production history: 'Its first production, from 4 March 1841 at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (by Charles Matthews and Madame Vestris’s company) was Boucicault’s first major success.'
Date of transmission: Friday 7 June 1963
Time: 9.15-10.15pm
Series: Victorians
Channel: ITV
Production company: Granada Television (1956-)
Theatre company: Company of Seven

Director

Stuart Latham

Producer

Philip Mackie

Playwright

Dion Boucicault

Adapted for Television by

Gerald Savory (1909-1996)

Composer

Derek New (theme music)

Designer

Roy Stonehouse

Cast

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