I Love You, Mrs Patterson

Summary

1967 Associated Television production for ITV of I Love You, Mrs Patterson by John Bowen.

Theatre play

I Love You, Mrs Patterson by John Bowen [more information]

Play synopsis

Brenda Patterson is a bored and repressed wife of a schoolteacher who becomes emotionally involved with one of his sixth-form pupils when their marriage runs into difficulties.

Production history

Dated to 1964.

Date of transmission

Monday 27 November 1967

Time

8.30-10.00pm

Series

ITV Playhouse

Channel

ITV

Production company

Associated Television (ATV, 1955-1982)

Credits

Director

John Gorrie

Producer

Cecil Clarke

Playwright

John Bowen

Sets / Settings

Alan Pickford

Cast

Stanley Beard	Mr Baxter
Jane Carr	Joyce Turley
Wendy Craig	Brenda Patterson
Ronald Hines	Hal Patterson
John Horsley	Mr Lovell
Fiona Lewis	Sheelagh Barton
Matthew Walters	Barnaby Thoms
Richard Warwick	Peter Baxter
Michael Wennick	Michael Andrews

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

adultery / infidelity; schools, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

TV Times, 23 November 1967 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article, p. 8; brief mention in article, p. 10; listing, p. 37