The Shop at Sly Corner

Summary

1948 BBC live outside broadcast of Edward Percy’s thriller The Shop at Sly Corner, from The Intimate Theatre, Palmer’s Green, by courtesy of Frederick Marlow

Theatre play

The Shop at Sly Corner by Edward Percy [more information]

Play synopsis

An ex-convict runs a London antique shop as a cover for his secret operations, strangling an assistant who discovers him and poisoning himself in haste when he thinks a police inspector has caught on to him.

Production history

First performed at St Martin’s Theatre, London on 11 April 1945.

Date of transmission

Thursday 8 April 1948

Time

7.15-9.15pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Presented for Television by

Campbell Logan

Theatre Producer

J. Grant Anderson

Playwright

Edward Percy

Cast

David Ashley	Archie Fellowes
Dorothy Clement	Mrs Catt
Ernest Haines	Descius Heiss
Norman Hartley	Steve Hubbard
Michael Ingrams	John Elliott
Robert Long	Robert Graham
Helen Misener	Mathilde Heiss
Margaret Pepler	Margaret Heiss
David Raven	Corder Morris
Myrtle Reed	Joan Deal

Additional details

Origination

Live from theatre

Vision original

Monochrome

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

crime; murder; thriller

Print sources

Title

Live from the Intimate Theatre, 1946-1949, part 2 (Blog article)

Author/creator

John Wyver (Author)

Reference

http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/live-from-the-intimate-theatre-1946-1949-part-2, published 16 February 2012

Title

Radio Times, 2 April 1948 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 27