The Devil’s Disciple
- Summary
- This BBC Television production of Shaw’s melodrama The Devil’s Disciple, presented in the Sunday-Night Theatre series, was part of the BBC’s 90th birthday celebrations for the playwright. These also included a glimpse of the man himsel in a telerecording included in the week’s Panorama programme.
- Theatre play
- The Devil’s Disciple by [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 22 July 1956
- Time
- 8.30pm (100 mins)
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Alan Bromly
- Playwright
- [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- Designer
- Stephen Bundy
- Cast
Jean Anderson Mrs Dudgeon Robert Brown Anthony Anderson Peggyann Clifford Mrs Titus Dudgeon Andrew Cruickshank General Burgoyne Colin Douglas Sergeant Raymond Francis Major Swindon William Franklyn Dick Dudgeon Esther McPherson Mrs William Dudgeon Carole Shelley Essie Tony Sympson Titus Dudgeon Sylvia Syms Judith Anderson Sidney Vivian William Dudgeon Lockwood West Lawyer Hawkins Nevil Whiting Christy Robert Young Mr Brudenell
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 18th-century setting; America, as theme or setting; comedy; melodrama; wartime, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Electronic G.B.S. (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 29 July 1956, p. 10
- Title
- Radio Times, 20 July 1956 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing pp. 14-15, with drawing and article by Peter Forster
- Title
- The Devil’s Disciple (Audience Research Report)
- Archive
- BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) [more information]
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- Reference
- Report reference VR/56/384, held in file R9/7/23
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