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]
- 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
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