Call It a Day

Summary

1948 BBC live studio production of Dodie Smith’s comedy Call It a Day.

Theatre play

Call It a Day by Dodie [Dorothy Gladys] Smith (1896-1990) [more information]

Play synopsis

The action of this comedy takes place in London in 1935.

Production history

Dodie Smith’s ‘fourth play, Call It A Day, was put on by the Theatre Guild on January 28, 1936, and ran for 194 performances. It ran in London for 509 performances, the longest run of any of Smith’s plays to date’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodie_Smith).

Date of transmission

Thursday 20 May 1948

Time

8.30-10.10pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Ian Atkins

Playwright

Dodie [Dorothy Gladys] Smith (1896-1990)

Sets / Settings

James Bould

Cast

Freda Bamford	Elsie Lester
Lina Barrie	Ann Hilton
Nicolette Bernard	Beatrice Gwynne
Hélène Burls	Mrs Milsom
Patricia Goddard	Joan Collett
Marjorie Gresley	Muriel Weston
Paul Hansard	Alistair Brown
Tatiana Lieven	Ethel Francis
R. Stuart [Stuart] Lindsell	Roger Hilton
Jack Livesey	Paul Francis
William Mervyn	Frank Haines
Angela Shafto	Vera
Honor Shepherd	Catherine Hilton
Vi Stevens	Cook
Peter Street	Martin Hilton
Jane Welsh	Dorothy HIlton

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

comedy

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 14 May 1948 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 27; article, p. 25