Night Was Our Friend

Summary

1955 BBC production of Night Was Our Friend by Michael Pertwee.

Theatre play

Night Was Our Friend by Michael Pertwee (1916-1991) [more information]

Play synopsis

Sally’s pilot husband Martin Raynor has been missing for two years. During this time she falls in love with local doctor John Harper. But Martin survived the aeroplane’s crash in the jungle: he returns, but soon dies in mysterious circumstances. Sally is tried for his murder, but is acquitted. Only two people know the truth about Martin’s death: Sally and the old family friend Dr Glanville, and it is the doctor who tells the story.

Production history

Staged before 1951, the year in which the stage play was made into a film.

Date of transmission

Sunday 7 August 1955

Time

8.45-10.15pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Reginald Tate

Playwright

Michael Pertwee (1916-1991)

Designer

Barry Learoyd

Cast

Michael Ashwin	Dr John Harper
Jill Bennett	Sally Raynor
Hugh Burden	Martin Raynor
Maurice Colbourne	Dr Glanville
Arthur Dallas	Winter
Christine Lindsay	Kate
Arthur Lovegrove	Tom
Bartlett Mullins	Landlord
John Stone	Cooper
Beatrix Thomson	Emily Raynor

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

murder

Print sources

Title

Post Morten (Magazine review)

Author/creator

Philip Hope-Wallace (Author)

Reference

The Listener, 11 August 1955, p. 231

Notes

Of Caviar to the General: ‘Quite sportingly done and well, if rather timidly, directed’

Title

Radio Times, 5 August 1955 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, article and image on p. 14; article, p. 15