Call It a Day
- Summary
- BBC Television production of Dodie Smith’s Call it a Day in which the mother and daughter characters Dorothy and Ann Hilton were played by real-life mother and daughter team Margaret and Julia Lockwood.
- Theatre play
- Call It a Day by Dodie [Dorothy Gladys] Smith (1896-1990) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 27 December 1956
- Time
- 8.15pm (105 mins)
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Hal Burton
- Playwright
- Dodie [Dorothy Gladys] Smith (1896-1990)
- Designer
- Hal Burton
- Cast
Jack Allen Frank Haines Iris Baker Ethel Francis Pamela Buck Joan Collett Margaret Butt Elsie Lester Adrienne Corri Beatrice Gwynne Zena Howard Muriel Weston Julia Lockwood Ann Hilton Margaret Lockwood Dorothy HIlton Jean Marlow Vera Ralph Michael Paul Francis Phyllis Morris Mrs Milsom Hugh Sinclair Roger Hilton Vi Stevens Cook Anthony Toller Martin Hilton Robert Tunstall Alistair Brown Sheila Whittingham Catherine Hilton
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- comedy
Print sources
- Title
- Christmas past at the BBC: the second half of the 1950s. Part 1 (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- Amanda Wrigley (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/christmas-past-bbc-1950s-1, published 28 December 2012
- Title
- Radio Times, 21 December 1956 (Newspaper review)
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 40, illustrated with a photograph
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