Lucky Strike

Summary

1960 Anglia Television production of Lucky Strike by Michael Brett, networked by Associated-Redifusion for ITV.

Theatre play

Lucky Strike by Michael Brett [more information]

Play synopsis

A south of England comedy about industrial relations in which a woman (Mrs Salesby) sacks a male worker, a Union shop steward (Tom Spragge), from the factory she has inherited from her late husband because he refuses to marry his pregnant girlfriend.

Production history

First performed in 1955.

Date of transmission

Tuesday 31 May 1960

Time

9.35-11.05pm

Series

Play of the Week

Channel

ITV

Production company

Anglia Television (1959-)

Credits

Director

George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)

Playwright

Michael Brett

Adapted for Television by

Michael Brett

Designer

Reece Pemberton

Cast

Michael Barber	Bill Giles
Zinnia Charlton	Cathy Stevens
Gladys Cooper	Mrs Edith Salesby
Ernest Hare	Sir William Garrick
Jack Hedley	Tom Spragge
Patrick Macnee	Keith Salesby
Clive Morton	Hugh Wallis
Frederick Piper	Joe Hurst
Pamela Plant	Sylvia
Helen Sessions	Susie
George Tovey	Charlie Maggs
Geoffrey Tyrrell	George Ponting

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

class issues / differences; comedy; sexuality (and morality, politics etc); trades unions

Print sources

Title

TV Times, 27 May 1960 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article, p. 16; listing, p. 29