Murder Mistaken

Summary

BBC Television production of Janet Green’s thriller Murder Mistaken.

Theatre play

Murder Mistaken by Janet Green [more information]

Play synopsis

Set in Sussex, this thriller concerns a smooth villain who murders his wife for her fortune, and then sets his sights on another rich woman in whom he meets his match.

Production history

It had a successful London run three years before the 1956 BBC Television production and it was turned into the film Cast a Dark Shadow.

Date of transmission

Thursday 18 October 1956

Time

8.30pm (90 mins)

Series

Henry Sherek Presents

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Campbell Logan

Playwright

Janet Green

Adaptor of Script

Michael Voysey

Designer

John Cooper

Cast

Derek Farr	Edward Bare
Kenneth Hyde	Philip Mortimer
Olga Lindo	Monica Bare
Margaret Lockwood	Freda Jeffries
Mary Mackenzie	Charlotte Young
Nora [or Norah] Nicholson	Emmie
Betty Romaine	Miss Bo-Peep

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

thriller

Print sources

Title

Plays and Cars (Newspaper review)

Author/creator

Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)

Reference

The Observer, 21 October 1956, p. 15

Title

Radio Times, 12 October 1956 (Magazine)

Linking notes

pp. 38 and 39, listing and article