The Strange Case of Blondie White

Summary

1947 BBC live studio production of the thriller The Strange Case of Blondie White by Bernard Merivale and Jeffery Dell.

Theatre play

The Strange Case of Blondie White by Bernard Merivale (1882-1939) and Jeffrey Dell [more information]

Play synopsis

Thriller in which a successful crime novelist turns amateur detective and draws suspicion on himself when he comes up against the murder squad of Scotland Yard.

Production history

Published by H. F. W. Deane in 1938

Date of transmission

Thursday 15 May 1947

Time

8.30-10.00pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Fred O’Donovan (1889-1952)

Playwright

Jeffrey Dell

Playwright

Bernard Merivale (1882-1939)

Sets / Settings

Barry Learoyd

Cast

Jonathan Field	Jackson
Richard Hurndall	Frank Warren
Felix Irwin	Police Surgeon
Sandra Jennings	Parton
Patricia Laffan	Doris Whitman
Avice Landone	Rita Warren
Elizabeth Maude	Miss Plumby
Helen Misener	Mrs Pauli
Sidney Monkton	Smith
Leonard Sachs	Major Mason
Ronald Sidney	Harper
Geoffrey Wincott	Edgar Davis

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Presented again at 3.00pm on Friday 16 May 1947.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

poetry and literature, as theme; thriller

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 9 May 1947 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 32; article, p. 29