Home Is the Hero

Summary

BBC Television production of Walter Macken’s Home Is the Hero, presented in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.

Theatre play

Home is the Hero by Walter Macken (1915-1967) [more information]

Play synopsis

A play about an Irish family to whom Paddo O’Reilly returns after serving time in prison for killing a man in a pub brawl. He turns out to be a violent bully.

Production history

Performed in New York, 1952. Possibly performed elsewhere earlier.

Date of transmission

Sunday 27 July 1958

Time

8.00pm (90 mins)

Series

Sunday-Night Theatre

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

John Jacobs

Playwright

Walter Macken (1915-1967)

Designer

Richard Henry

Cast

Eddie Byrne	Paddo O’Reilly
John Cairney	Manchester Monaghan
Donal Donnelly	Willie
Concepta Fennell	Josie
Gerald C. Lawson	Trapper O’Flynn
Peggy Marshall	Daylia
Patrick McAlinney	Dovetail
Carmel McSharry	Bid
Joan Phillips	Lily Green
Shela Ward	Mrs Green

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

Irish drama; murder; prison

Print sources

Title

Failure in Irony: Home Is the Hero (Newspaper review)

Reference

The Times, 28 July 1958, p. 5

Title

Radio Times, 25 July 1958 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article on p. 4; listing with photograph on p. 9