The Shop at Sly Corner

Summary

1953 BBC live studio production of Edward Percy’s thriller The Shop at Sly Corner.

Theatre play

The Shop at Sly Corner by Edward Percy [more information]

Play synopsis

An ex-convict runs a London antique shop as a cover for his secret operations, strangling an assistant who discovers him and poisoning himself in haste when he thinks a police inspector has caught on to him.

Production history

First performed at St Martin’s Theatre, London on 11 April 1945.

Date of transmission

Sunday 22 November 1953

Time

8.40-10.10pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Lionel Harris

Producer

Ian Atkins

Playwright

Edward Percy

Sets / Settings

James Bould

Cast

Michael Allinson	Robert Graham
Ilona Ference	Mrs Catt
Patrick Horgan	Policeman
Ray Jackson	Archie Fellowes
Peter Jenkins	Steve Hubbard
Keneth Kent	Descius Heiss
Helen Misener	Mathilde Heiss
Stephen Vercoe	John Elliott
Rosemary Webster	Joan Deal
Jane Wenham	Margaret Heiss
Leonard Williams	Corder Morris

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Presented again at 7.30pm on Thursday 26 November 1953.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

crime; murder; thriller

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 20 November 1953 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, photograph and article by Kenneth A. Hurren, ‘The Shop at Sly Corner’, p. 14