Waterloo
- Summary
- BBC Television production of Arthur Conan Doyle’s play Waterloo. The production was listed in the Radio Times for transmission at 3.30pm and 9.35pm on Friday 8 October 1937, but the BBC Programme Records note an ‘Announcement (Apology for alteration of Programme)' at these times and the production doesn’t appear in the schedule for that day. The production was, the BBC Programme Records note, transmitted on 25 and 29 October 1937 (the former was not announced in the Radio Times).
- Theatre play
- Waterloo by Arthur Conan Doyle [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Monday 25 October 1937
- Time
- 3.29pm (33 mins)
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)
- Playwright
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Cast
Robert English Colonel James Midwinter Alexander Fields (1892-1971) Sergeant Archive Macdonald Mary Kerridge Norah Brewster Wilfred Shine Corporal Gregory Brewster
Additional details
- Later transmissions
- Transmitted again at 9.30pm on Friday 29 October.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting
Print sources
- Title
- BBC Television Programme Records: vol. 1, 1937-38 (Book)
- Reference
- London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1938
- Linking notes
- listings on pp. 85, 86
- Title
- Radio Times, 1 October 1937 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 19; n.b. this transmission did not go ahead
- Title
- Radio Times, 22 October 1937 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 18
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