Learning on ScreenThe Toy Town Adventures of Larry the Lamb
- Summary
- 1947 BBC live studio presentation of the Granville Theatre staging of The Toy Town Adventures of Larry the Lamb, which adapts four of Hulme Beaman’s original radio scripts about Larry the Lamb. The Granville Theatre production had recently ended.
- Theatre play
- The Cruise of the Toy Town Belle by Hendrik Baker and S. G. Hulme Beaman [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 11 May 1947
- Time
- 3.00-4.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Alex McCrindle
- Theatre Producer
- A. A. Shenburn
- Adapted for the Stage by
- Hendrik Baker
- Playwright
- S. G. Hulme Beaman
- Sets / Settings
- Hendrik Baker ('after S. G. Hulme’s illustrations’)
- Cast
Betty Blackler Larry, the Lamb Van Boolen Cannibal Chief Clifford Buckton Captain Higgins Bligh Chesmond The Doctor Anthony Collins Anthony Cope The Magician John Deverell The Inventor Fred Essex Ernest, the Policeman Lawrence Hanray Mr Growser J. Howell Jachin Howes Michael Mellinger David Reynolds Raymond Rollett Mayor of Toy Town Malcolm Thomas Dennis, the Dachshund Roger Trafford Peter Brass Alan Welch Secretary to the Mayor
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- children’s drama
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 9 May 1947 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article by The Scanner, ‘Larry the Lamb is Here’, p. 29; listing, p. 31
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