A Day by the Sea

Summary

1964 BBC studio production of N. C. Hunter gentle comedy A Day by the Sea.

Theatre play

A Day by the Sea by N. C. [Norman Charles] Hunter (1908-1971) [more information]

Play synopsis

This play, the action of which takes place across a single day in a house by the sea in Dorset, ‘expresses the kind of predicament quite common among people reaching middle age. Without realising that time is slipping away, they relentlessly pursue a way of life, a career, at the expense of everything else, only to find it quite unrewarding’ (TV Times, 27 March 1959, p. 7).

Production history

It premiered in 1953.

Date of transmission

Thursday 10 December 1964

Channel

BBC2

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

John Gorrie

Producer

Cedric Messina

Playwright

N. C. [Norman Charles] Hunter (1908-1971)

Designer

Natasha Kroll

Story Editor

Rosemary Hill

Cast

Gene Anderson	Miss Mathieson
Felix Aylmer	David Anson
Elizabeth Benzimra	Elinor Eddison
Peter Collingwood	William Gregson
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies	Laura Anson
Robert Flemyng	Julian Anson
Rachel Gurney	Frances Farrar
Laurence Hardy	Dr Farley
Cyril Raymond	Humphrey Caldwell
Gerald Rowland	Toby Eddison

Additional details

Origination

Recorded in studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Repeated on BBC2 at 8.45pm on Thursday 2 September 1965.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

ageing; Dorset, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 26 August 1965 (Magazine)

Linking notes

brief illustrated article, p. 41, listing p. 43