Learning on ScreenDark Victory
- Summary
- Dark Victory by George Brewer Jr and Bertram Bloch is set in America. This BBC Television version of the play shifts the action to England and the opening scene of the hunt was filmed with the Whaddon Chase in Buckinghamshire (Radio Times, 16 November 1956, p. 15).
- Theatre play
- Dark Victory by George Brewer and Bertram Bloch [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 18 November 1956
- Time
- 8.30pm (90 mins)
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Rudolph Cartier
- Playwright
- Bertram Bloch
- Playwright
- George Brewer
- Designer
- Richard Wilmot
- Cast
Terence Alexander Bill Ewing Ellen Blueth Elsie Jean Cadell Miss Jenny Naomi Chance Alden Blaine Shay Gorman Michael Ruth Gower Miss Wainwright Scott Harrold Messenger Allan Jeayes Dr Parsons Eric Lugg Postman Annabelle [or Annabel] Maule Connie Ewing Jill Melford Janette Borden Stephen Murray David Steele, PhD, MB, BSc, PRCS Edana Romney Judith Traherne Richard Waring Leslie Clarke
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- America, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Dark Victory: BBC Play of Girl with Six Months to Live (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 19 November 1956, p. 5
- Title
- Radio Times, 16 November 1956 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- pp. 14 and 15
- Title
- Television: They Know! (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 25 November 1956, p. 11
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