For Dear Life
- Summary
- 1955 live BBC studio production of Lionel Brown’s comedy For Dear Life, which was tele-recorded and broadcast three weeks later.
- Theatre play
- For Dear Life by Lionel Brown [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 8 March 1955
- Time
- 9.15-10.30pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Barbara Burnham
- Playwright
- Lionel Brown
- Designer
- John Clements (1910-1988)
- Cast
Patricia Burke Myfanwy Grey Hamilton Dyce Dr Hedley Yates Dorothy Gordon Megs Hayes Malcolm Keen Bishop of Bethesda Joyce Marlow Ellen Hayes Anthony Oliver Lucian Evans Paul Whitsun-Jones Abraham Watkin
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Repeated as a tele-recording on 29 March 1955 as a replacement for The Unguarded Hour.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- comedy; music, as theme; Wales, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Children (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 7 April 1955, p. 633
- Notes
- Details that the production of The Unguarded Hour was not broadcast as planned because of copyright problems. Of the repeated For Dear Life, Philip Hope-Wallace wrote: ‘I am bound to say [the production] stood up far better to second sight than I expected. The quality of the tele-film was excellent.' Also briefly discussed Broken Silence, with a production photograph.
- Title
- Oft in Sorrow (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 17 March 1955, p. 493
- Title
- Radio Times, 4 March 1955 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 26
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