London Assurance

Summary

1976 BBC production of London Assurance by Dion Boucicault.

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

Sunday 10 October 1976

Time

8.45-10.25pm

Series

Play of the Month

Channel

BBC1

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Ronald Wilson

Producer

Cedric Messina

Playwright

Dion Boucicault

Adapted for Television by

Gerald Savory (1909-1996)

Designer

Derek Dodd

Costumes

Raymond Hughes

Script Editor

Alan Shallcross

Cast

James Bree	Adolphus Spanker
Judy Cornwell	Lady Gay Spanker
Jan Francis	Grace Harkaway
Charles Gray	Sir Harcourt Courtly
Dinsdale Landen	Dazzle
Nat Pearn	Butler
George Raistrick	Bailiff
Clifford Rose	Cool
Nigel Stock	Max Harkaway

Additional details

Play tags

19th-century setting; comedy

Audiovisual sources

Title

London Assurance (BBC, 1976)

Archive

BBC Information and Archives [more information]

Address

White City
London
UK

Telephone

+44 (0)20 8008 2288

Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/

Access

BBC Information and Archives is not open to the public.

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 7 October 1976 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 26