Waterloo

Summary

1953 BBC live studio production of Arthur Conan-Doyle’s one-act drama Waterloo.

Theatre play

Waterloo by Arthur Conan Doyle [more information]

Play synopsis

'The scene is a front room in a small house in Woolwich, June, 1881’ (Radio Times, 1 October, p. 19).

Production history

First UK performance: London, 1894.

Date of transmission

Wednesday 16 September 1953

Time

8.35-9.00pm

Series

Wednesday Theatre

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

John Moxey

Playwright

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sets / Settings

Stephen Bundy

Cast

Margaret Anderson	Norah Brewster
Laidman Browne	Corporal Gregory Brewster
Clement McCallin	Colonel Midwinter
Patrick Troughton	Sergeant McDonald

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

19th-century setting

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 11 September 1953 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing and brief article, p. 32