Hindle Wakes

Summary

1976 Granada Television production for ITV of Hindle Wakes by Stanley Houghton.

Theatre play

Hindle Wakes by Stanley Houghton (1881-1913) [more information]

Play synopsis

Comedy set in the 1910s. The action takes place in the kitchen of the Hawthorns’ house, Burnley Road, Hindle; and in the breakfast-room of the Jeffcotes’ house Bank Top, Hindle Vale. When it is discovered that Fanny Hawthorn had spent a weekend with a young man during her holiday in Blackpool, she is unrepentant, refusing to marry him, despite being disowned by her community and the threat of losing her job at the local mill in Hindle, Lancashire.

Production history

Premiered in 1912, with Sybil Thorndike in the role of Fanny.

Date of transmission

Sunday 19 December 1976

Time

9.05-10.35pm

Series

Laurence Olivier Presents

Channel

ITV

Production company

Granada Television (1956-)

Credits

Directors

June Howson, Laurence Olivier

Producers

June Howson, Laurence Olivier

Playwright

Stanley Houghton (1881-1913)

Designer

Alan Price

Cast

Rosalind Ayres	Fanny Hawthorn
Judi Bowker	Beatrice Farrar
Roy Dotrice	Sir Timothy Farrar
Trevor Eve	Alan Jeffcote
Jack Hedley	Christopher Hawthorn
Pat Heywood	Mrs Hawthorn
Joe Holmes	Joshua
Rosemary Leach	Mrs Jeffcote
Donald Pleasance	Nathaniel Jeffcote
Marjorie Sudell	Ada
Pat Wallis	Norah Ridehalgh
Peter Wallis	Thomas

Additional details

Play tags

class issues / differences; comedy; north of England, as theme or setting; sexuality (and morality, politics etc)

Audiovisual sources

Title

Laurence Olivier Presents. The Collection. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Hindke Wakes. Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Come Back Little Sheba. Daphne Laureola

Notes

Published by Network in 2007

Print sources

Title

TV Times, 16 December 1976 (Magazine)

Linking notes

articles, pp. 11 and 30; listing, p. 43