Wild Justice

Summary

1950 BBC production of Wild Justice, a melodrama by James Dale.

Theatre play

Wild Justice by James Dale [more information]

Play synopsis

Melodrama. Who murdered Mrs Lovat in the grocery store? We find out early on that the murdered is Mr Perry and the drama lies in watching him battle justice. Can he escape hanging? Will his wife spill the beans? Will private vengeance be wrought?

Production history

First staged in 1933.

Date of transmission

Sunday 20 August 1950

Time

8.15-9.45pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Campbell Logan

Playwright

James Dale

Adapted for Television by

W. P. Rilla

Sets / Settings

James Bould

Cast

Grace Arnold	Mrs Read
Angela Baddeley	Clara
Eleanore [or Eleanor] Bryan	Ferris
Howard Douglas	Mr Fletcher
James Grabbe	Newsboy
Douglas Hurn	Godfrey Perry
Douglas Jefferies	Dr Summers
Stuart Latham	P.C. Parkes
Sam Lysons	Judge
Henry Oscar (1891-1969)	Gabriel Perry
William Roderick	Defending Counsel
David Spenser	Tommie
Christopher Steele	Smith
George Street	Mr Read
Josephine Stuart	Mildred
Percy Walsh	Inspector White

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Repeated on Thursday 24 August 1950 at 8.30pm.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

19th-century setting; melodrama; murder

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 18 August 1950 (Magazine)

Linking notes

articles, pp. 36 and 37; listing, p. 38