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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 CherryClara Eynsford Hill
Peggyann Clifford
Bryan ColemanFreddy Eynsford Hill
Cyril Conway
Edward Fairbrother
Willoughby GrayMan in the Bowler Hat
Gordon HarkerAlfred Doolittle
Mary HintonMrs Higgins
Sam Hinton
Margaret LockwoodEliza Doolittle
Mary McAlpineParlour-maid
Mary MerrallMrs Eynsford Hill
Ralph MichaelProfessor Henry Higgins
Jack Newmark
Wally PatchMan in the Cap
Victor Platt
Charles Ross
Frederick Ross
Beatrice VarleyMrs Pearce
Richard Watson
Arthur WontnerColonel 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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