Learning on ScreenPirates Can’t Be Gentlemen
- Summary
- A 1952 BBC production of Pirates Can’t Be Gentlemen by Jean M. Thorpe, a theatre in education play presented as part of the children’s series The Play’s the Thing.
- Theatre play
- Pirates Can’t Be Gentlemen by Jean M. Thorpe [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 29 January 1952
- Time
- 5.40-6.10pm
- Series
- Children’s Television; Play’s the Thing
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Penelope Davidson
- Playwright
- Jean M. Thorpe
- Presenter
- Pamela Brown
- Cast
Brian Dodsworth Mate Carol Dowell Priscilla Mainwaring Jill Foster Sarah John Hales Patch Martin Hansford Robert Mainwaring Robert Irvine Stage Manager / Sheriff Colin Prime Tough Tom Alan Richardson Pirate Captain Terence Taylor Ben Michael Warren Loopy Felicity Wigg Alice Mainwaring
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 25 January 1952 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 47
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