Spider’s Web [excerpt]

Summary: 1955 live BBC outside broadcast of an excerpt of Agatha Christie’s thriller Spider’s Web, presented before an invited audience at the Savoy Theatre in London, by arrangement with Peter Saunders.
Theatre play: The Spider’s Web by Agatha Christie [more information]
Play synopsis: 'Clarissa Hailsham-Brown used to weave fantasies until she found herself enmeshed in a real murder’ (Radio Times, 23 December 1982, p. 35).
Production history: The play opened at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham on 27 September 1954, followed by a short national tour and then it had its West End opening on 13 December 1954 at the Savoy Theatre, where it ran for 774 performances.
Date of transmission: Monday 4 April 1955
Time: 7.45-8.45pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Presented for Television by

Alan Chivers

Theatre Director

Wallace Douglas

Playwright

Agatha Christie

Decor

Michael Weight

Cast

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