Pink String and Sealing Wax

Summary: 1960 ABC Television production for ITV of Pink String and Sealing Wax by Roland Pertwee.
Theatre play: Pink String and Sealing Wax by Roland Pertwee (1885-1963) [more information]
Play synopsis: The comedy is set in the sitting room of the Strachan’s house in Brighton during the late 1800s. Edward Strachan controls his family with little tenderness and understanding. His loving, ambitious children despair of his lack of attentiveness. When his eldest son becomes associated with a married woman who plots to incriminate him in the murder of her husband, Edward realises how wrong his priorities were and tries to protect his son and become reunited with his estranged family.
Production history: First produced at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London, on 2 September 1943.
Date of transmission: Sunday 28 February 1960
Time: 9.05-10.05pm
Series: Armchair Theatre
Channel: ITV
Production company: ABC Television (1955-1968)

Director

Dennis Vance

Producer

Sydney Newman (1917-1997)

Playwright

Roland Pertwee (1885-1963)

Designer

Assheton Gorton

Cast

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