Learning on ScreenIsidor Comes to Town
- Summary
- 1954 live BBC broadcast from the Television Theatre, given before an invited audience, of Harry Green’s adaptation of Aaron Hoffman’s Jewish comedy Welcome Stranger.
- Theatre play
- Welcome Stranger by Aaron Hoffman [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 7 September 1954
- Time
- 8.40-10.30pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Julian Amyes
- Playwright
- Aaron Hoffman
- Adapted for Television by
- Harry Green
- Designer
- Frederick Knapman
- Cast
Mark Baker David Frankel Carl Bernard Gideon Tyler Richard Caldicot Ted Hooker Mark Daly Clem Beemis Rosemary Davis Grace Whitson Walter Fitzgerald Abner Whitson Nora Gordon Mrs Trimble Harry Green Isidor Solomon Clement Hamelin Mr Donegan William Lucas Bill Warner Joan Rice Mary Clarke June Rodney Essie Solomon Raymond Rollett Seth Trimble Raymond Young Ned Tyler
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from theatre
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- American drama; comedy; Jewish context or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 3 September 1954 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 26; brief article, p. 15
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