Grand National Night
- Summary
- 1950 BBC production of the thriller Grand National Night by Dorothy Christie and Campbell Christie.
- Theatre play
- Grand National Night by Dorothy Christie and Campbell Christie (1893-1963) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 4 June 1950
- Time
- 8.15-10.15pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Fred O’Donovan (1889-1952)
- Playwright
- Campbell Christie (1893-1963)
- Playwright
- Dorothy Christie
- Sets / Settings
- James Bould
- Cast
John Byron Gerald Coates Charles Cullum Sergeant Gibson Stanley Drewitt Morton John Harvey Detective Inspector Ayling Joyce Heron Babs Coates / Pinkie Collins Patricia Jessel Joyce Penrose Humphrey Lestocq Buns Darling Ronald Simpson Philip Blafour
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.30pm on Thursday 8 June 1950
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- crime; murder; north of England, as theme or setting; thriller
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 2 June 1950 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article, p. 37; listing, p. 38
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