Learning on ScreenHappy Week-end
- Summary
- 1949 BBC live studio production of Dion Titheradge’s musical Happy Week-end.
- Theatre play
- Happy Week-end! by Dion Titheradge (1889-1934) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Saturday 21 May 1949
- Time
- 8.15-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Walter Anderson
- Adapted for Television by
- Walter Anderson
- Book by
- Dion Titheradge (1889-1934)
- Music
- Michael Eisemann
- Music
- Percival Mackay
- Lyrics
- Dion Titheradge (1889-1934)
- Additional Music and Lyrics
- Frank Andrews
- Additional Music and Lyrics
- Nat Ayer
- Additional Music and Lyrics
- Arthur Stanley
- Additional Music and Lyrics
- Frank Trafford
- Orchestra Directed by
- Eric Robinson
- Sets / Settings
- Richard R. Greenough
- Assistant Producer
- Leslie Jackson
- Cast
Howard Douglas Charlie Wallas Eaton Edward Potts Richard Gilbert Rogers; Bragg Lois Green Mitzi Anthony Hayes Frank Walter Horsbrugh Tom Barbara Leake Miss Blythe-Pratt George Moon Riki Roberta Pett Lola Carol Raye Polly Ian Whittaker Pageboy
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 7.45pm on Thursday 26 May 1949.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- musical
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 13 May 1949 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 31; brief article, p.29
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