The Night of the Ding-Dong

Summary

1958 ABC Television production for ITV of The Night of the Ding-Dong by Ralph Peterson.

Theatre play

The Night of the Ding-Dong by Ralph W. Peterson (1921-1996) [more information]

Play synopsis

'South Australia is under the threat of enemy invasion, or is it? At any rate Col. Beauchamp insists that romance must give way to military preparedness. Australian writer Ralph Peterson has set his story in Adelaide, 1870, but is it so very different from places nearer home, 1958?' (Source: TV Times, 31 January 1958, p. 25.)

Production history

Dated to 1954, this was the second play by Ralph Peterson.

Date of transmission

Sunday 2 February 1958

Time

9.35-10.50pm

Series

Armchair Theatre

Channel

ITV

Production company

ABC Television (1955-1968)

Credits

Director

John Nelson Burton

Playwright

Ralph W. Peterson (1921-1996)

Adapted for Television by

John Nelson Burton

Adapted for Television by

Peter John Dyer

Designer

Voytek

Cast

Margaret Clifford	Annette
David Courtney	Marcus Higson
Hilton Edwards	Colonel Beauchamp
John Kidd	Mr Morgan Nash
John Vincent Laycock	Trumpeter
Andrée Melly	Louise Beauchamp
Charles Morgan	Mr Godwin Shedly
Peter Myers	Thaddeus Beauchamp
Athene Seyler (1889-1990)	Mrs Beauchamp Snr
Ewen Solon	Mr Harry Kelp
Joyce Worsley	Victoria Beauchamp

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

19th-century setting; Australia, as theme or setting; Australian drama; comedy; wartime, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

TV Times, 31 January 1958 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article, p. 20 and listing, p. 25