Fallen Angels

Summary

1974 Anglia Television production for ITV of Fallen Angels by Noël Coward.

Theatre play

Fallen Angels by Noël Coward (1899-1973) [more information]

Play synopsis

Comedy. ‘With their passionless husbands away playing golf, a mutual long-ago lover announces his intention to pay Julia and Jane an impromptu visit. All in a fluster, there’s clearly only one thing to do: hit the bottle! Or rather, pop open the bubbly. Each successive glass loosens their tongues, hidden jealousies surface, the claws come out, and all attempts at demure behaviour go out of the window. But it’s not until the unexpected early return of their golfing husbands that the women’s evening really hits its frenzied peak...' (source: http://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/page/3028/Fallen+Angels/767).

Production history

First staged in London, 1925.

Date of transmission

Friday 20 December 1974

Time

9.00-10.00pm

Channel

ITV

Production company

Anglia Television (1959-)

Credits

Director

Donald McWhinnie

Producer

John Jacobs

Playwright

Noël Coward (1899-1973)

Adapted for Television by

William Fairchild

Designer

Eileen Diss

Costumes

Beatrice Dawson

Cast

Michael Aldridge	Fred Sterroll
Lally Bowers	Saunders
Joan Collins	Jane Banbury
Sacha Distel	Maurice Duclos
Ronald Fraser	Willoughby Banbury
Susannah York	Julia Sterroll

Additional details

Play tags

comedy

Print sources

Title

TV Times, 12 December 1974 (Magazine)

Linking notes

cover image; long articles, pp. 12-14 and 20-21; listing, p. 65