The Gazebo [scenes]

Summary: 1960 BBC presentation of scenes from Alec Coppel’s The Gazebo, televised directly from the Savoy theatre, London, by arrangement with Harold Fielding.
Theatre play: The Gazebo by Alec Coppel [more information]
Play synopsis: Comedy. ‘A writer of TV whodunits and whyzits, always with an eye toward inventing the almost perfect crime, gets into a spot where he has to commit a real do-it-yourself murder. His wife has become the target of blackmail, so the writer has to silence the so-and-so with a six-shooter and then find a place to hide the body. Having acquired at auction a gazebo for their suburban backyard, the writer and his wife decide to plant the blackmailer in its fresh concrete foundation. Mysteriously, it isn’t long before the body turns up againin the middle of their living room! Soon the house is crawling with detectives and district attorneys, all looking to point the finger somewhere, thus casting the writer in a role he never expected he’d have to play: the suspect.' Source: http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1683.
Production history: First staged in London in 1958.
Date of transmission: Tuesday 20 September 1960
Time: 8.45-9.30pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC