Toad of Toad Hall
- Summary
- 1947 BBC Television production of A. A. Milne’s Toad of Toad Hall, which he based on Kenneth Grahame’s novel for children The Wind in the Willows. Michael Barry had produced this play for television in 1946 and 1947: although many actors played the same parts in 1946, 1947 and 1948, there are sufficient differences to identify them as separate productions.
- Theatre play
- Toad of Toad Hall by A. A. Milne (1882-1956) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 19 December 1948
- Time
- 5.30-7.30pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Michael Barry
- Playwright
- A. A. Milne (1882-1956)
- Writer
- Kenneth Grahame (wrote The Wind in the Willows, on which Milne based the play)
- Adapted for Television by
- Michael Barry
- Composer
- H. Fraser-Simson
- Orchestra Directed by
- Eric Robinson
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Dances Arranged by
- Felicity Gray
- Répétiteur
- Alan [or Allan] Bixter
- Cast
Barbara Birkinshaw Duck Jacqueline Boiteux Turkey Theodore Child Jill Coates Denise Coffey Second Field Mouse Musetta Fonnereau First Field Mouse Angela Glynne Marigold Cameron Hall Toad Dearie Higgs Desmond Keith Policeman Diarmuid Kelly Weasel Sam Kydd Ferret John Laurent Alfred, the Horse Kenneth More Mr Badger Jack Newmark Mole Andrew Osborn Water Rat Jocelyn Owen Tina Ann Page Pat [Patricia] Pleasance Harry Secombe Judge Catherine Summerton Audrey Swift Madoline Thomas Mother Patrick Troughton Storyteller Desmond Walter-Ellis Usher / Chief Weasel Alwyne Whatsley Stoat; Gaoler Victor Woolf Alfred, the Horse
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Thursday 23 December 1948.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- adaptation of novel; children’s drama
- Programme context tags
- children’s television
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 17 December 1948 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 30; article, p. 29
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