Learning on ScreenThe Unguarded Hour
- Summary
- Although this BBC studio production was prepared and advertised in Radio Times, it was not in fact broadcast. Philip Hope-Wallace explained in The Listener: ‘The BBC, having in a unguarded moment booked The Unguarded Hour without its copyright, we were treated to a second help of Lionel Browne’s For Dear Life’ (7 April 1955, p. 633).
- Theatre play
- The Unguarded Hour by Bernard Merivale (1882-1939) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 29 March 1955
- Time
- 9.00-10.15pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Stuart Latham
- Playwright
- Bernard Merivale (1882-1939)
- Adapted for Television by
- Charles Lefeaux
- Designer
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
Pamela Alan Diana Lewis John Bailey Metcalfe Alec Finter Lord Henningway Walter Fitzgerald Sir Francis Dearden Greta Gynt Lady Yvonne Dearden Raymond Huntley Colonel William Mason Leslie Kyle Court Usher John Le Mesurier Pewson Alan Rolfe Inspector Wallace John Sharplin Wyndham Browne Graham Stuart Sir Thomas Grainger Una Venning Lady Henningway Russell Waters Sergeant Atkins Geoffrey Wilmer Judge
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- court-room drama
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
- Radio Times, 25 March 1955 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, photograph and caption, p. 26
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