The White Sheep of the Family

Summary: 1953 BBC live studio production of the comedy The White Sheep of the Family by L. du Garde Peach and Ian Hay.
Theatre play: The White Sheep of the Family by Ian Hay (1876-1952) and L. [Lawrence] du Garde Peach (1890-1974) [more information]
Play synopsis: Comedy. James Winter is a very respectable burglar. He lives comfortably in Hampstead, belongs to distinguished clubs and is on excellent terms with a local police inspector. His family, too, and even their maid, are all light-fingered felons. But then his son Peter wants to go straight so that he can marry the daughter of the Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard...
Production history: First produced at the Piccadilly Theatre, London, in October 1951.
Date of transmission: Monday 6 July 1953
Time: 9.15-10.45pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

John Warrington

Playwright

L. [Lawrence] du Garde Peach (1890-1974)

Playwright

Ian Hay (1876-1952)

Sets / Settings

Richard R. Greenough

Cast

Rona Anderson	Angela Preston
Michael Bird
Denys Blakelock	Vicar
Derek Blomfield	Peter Winter
Emerton Court	Assistant Commissioner John Preston
Molly Hamley-Clifford
Arthur Hewlett
Ursula Howells	Pat Winter
Jack [John Norman] Hulbert (1892-1978)	James Winter
Mary Kimber	Janet
Avice Landone	Alice Winter
Peter Lupino
Catherine Martin
Sydney [or Sidney] Tafler	Sam Jackson
MacGregor Urquhart

Origination: Live from studio
Vision original: Monochrome
Later transmissions: Presented again at 7.30pm on Thursday 9 July 1953.
Notes: Jack Hulbert and Denys Blakelock played the parts they take here in the first stage production of the play at London’s Piccadilly Theatre in 1951.
Extant status: No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags: comedy; crime

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