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

Credits

Presented for Television by

Alan Chivers

Theatre Director

Wallace Douglas

Playwright

Agatha Christie

Decor

Michael Weight

Cast

Felix Aylmer	Sir Rowland Delahaye
Myles Eason	Jeremy Warrender
Judith Furse	Mildred Peake
Desmond Llewellyn	Constable Jones
Margaret Lockwood	Clarissa Hailsham-Brown
Sidney Monckton	Elgin
Charles Morgan	Oliver Costello
Harold Scott	Hugo Birch
Campbell Singer	Inspector Lord

Additional details

Origination

Live from theatre

Vision original

Monochrome

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

Christmas; murder; thriller

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 1 April 1955 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, picture and caption, p. 20