Learning on ScreenThe Scarlet Pimpernel
- Summary
- BBC Television production of Orczy and Barstowe’s romantic adventure drama, which was presented in the Sunday-Night Theatre series.
- Theatre play
- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska ['Baroness’] Orczy (1865-1947) and Montague Barstowe [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 18 September 1955
- Time
- 8.30pm (90 mins)
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Michael Barry
- Playwright
- Montague Barstowe
- Playwright
- Emmuska ['Baroness’] Orczy (1865-1947)
- Designer
- Reece Pemberton
- Dances Arranged by
- Patricia Kirshner
- Cast
Tony Britton Sir Percy Blakeney Richard Burrell Soldier David Cahill Olga Camilleri Peter Cellier De Grignon Jefferson Clifford Lord Grenville Willoughby Goddard Jellyband Everley Gregg Mère Brogard Noël Hood Comtesse de Tournai John Horsley Captain of the Guard Ronald Howard Sir Andrew Ffoulkes Harriet Johns Lady Blakeney Diana Lambert Suzanne de Tournai Eric Lander Armand St Just Hugh Latimer Lord Anthony Dewhurst Gerald C. Lawson Brogard Jack May Prince of Wales Alexis Milne Evelyn Moore Lady Portarles Maureen O’Reilly Sally Clive Revill Citizen Marilyn Ridge William Russell Vicomte de Tournai Robert Shaw Herbert Peter Stephens Hempseed Norman Tyrrell Comte de Tournai Douglas Wilmer Chauvelin Geoffrey Wilmer
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 18th-century setting; France, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- La Vie Parisienne (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Listener, 22 September 1955, pp. 480-81
- Title
- Radio Times, 16 September 1955 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- p.14 has listing, article by Peter Currie, and image of a scene from the production
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