Pygmalion
- Summary
- 1948 BBC live studio production of Bernard Shaw’s drama Pygmalion, with Margaret Lockwood as Eliza.
- Theatre play
- Pygmalion by [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 8 February 1948
- Time
- 8.00-10.30pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Royston Morley
- Playwright
- [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
Nicolette Bernard Stuart Chedburn Helen Cherry Clara Eynsford Hill Peggyann Clifford Bryan Coleman Freddy Eynsford Hill Cyril Conway Edward Fairbrother Willoughby Gray Man in the Bowler Hat Gordon Harker Alfred Doolittle Mary Hinton Mrs Higgins Sam Hinton Margaret Lockwood Eliza Doolittle Mary McAlpine Parlour-maid Mary Merrall Mrs Eynsford Hill Ralph Michael Professor Henry Higgins Jack Newmark Wally Patch Man in the Cap Victor Platt Charles Ross Frederick Ross Beatrice Varley Mrs Pearce Richard Watson Arthur Wontner Colonel Pickering
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presemted again at 8.00pm on Tuesday 10 February 1948.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- class issues / differences
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 27 February 1948 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- 'Viewers’ Views on Pygmalion’, p. 25
- Title
- Radio Times, 6 February 1948 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- front cover photograph; article, p. 24; full-page article ‘Television’s Eliza Doolittle’ by Ivor Brown, p. 25; listing, p. 26
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