The Wise Cat
- Summary
- 1955 BBC production of The Wise Cat by Herman Heyermans in the Children’s Television slot.
- Theatre play
- The Wise Cat by Herman Heyermans [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 14 August 1955
- Time
- 5.00-6.00pm
- Series
- Children’s Television
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Rex Tucker
- Playwright
- Herman Heyermans
- Adapted for Television by
- Gibson Cowan
- Adapted for Television by
- Selma Vaz Dias
- Designer
- John Cooper
- Cast
Bruno Barnabe Marcus / The Chef Reginald Barratt The Physician Cecil Brock Jean Philip Dale The Milkman Brenda Dean Antoinette Carl Duering Prince Arthur Nellie Griffiths Maria Hanson Charles Hodgson Jonathan Richard Holden Fletcher Lightfoot Philip Locke Pierre Arthur Lowe The Fishmonger Launce Maraschal The Butcher Jack May The Marshal Brian Moorhead Wolfe Morris The Cat Lesley Nunnerley Princess Regina Kendrick Owen Jill Showell Philip Stainton The King Selma Vaz Dias The Lady-in-waiting Geoffrey Wilmer The Forester
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- children’s drama; comedy; Dutch drama
- Programme context tags
- children’s television
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 12 August 1955 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 14; article by Selma Vaz Dias, ‘A Dutch Puss in Boots’, p. 21
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