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Ten Nights in a Bar-room

Summary
1953 BBC live production in the Television Theatre of the Victorian temperance melodrama Ten Nights in a Bar-room by William W. Pratt.
Theatre play
Ten Nights in a Bar-room by William W. Pratt [more information]
Date of transmission
Saturday 19 December 1953
Time
9.15-10.45pm
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Director
Dennis Vance
Producer
Campbell Logan
Playwright
William W. Pratt
Original Book by
T. S. Arthur (the play adapts Arthur’s 1854 novel)
Cast
Alfie BassFrank Slade
Carl BernardHarvey Green
Madge Brindley
Edgar K. BruceThe Manager
Jessie EvansMehitable Cartright
Harry Green
Ernest HareMr Romaine
Winifred Hill
Philip Howard
James Lomas
Perlita NeilsonMary Morgan
Henry Oscar (1891-1969)Joe Morgan
Joy Owen
Ellen PollockMrs Morgan
Olive SloaneMrs Slade
Ivan StaffSample Swichel
James Turner
Edmund WilliardSimon Slade
Raymond YoungWillie Hammond

Additional details

Origination
Live from theatre; Live from studio
Vision original
Monochrome
Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
19th-century setting; alcoholism; America, as theme or setting; American drama; melodrama

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 11 December 1953 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing, p. 50; brief article, p. 14

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