Collect Your Hand Baggage

Summary

1963 Anglia Television production for ITV of the comedy Collect Your Hand Baggage by John Mortimer.

Theatre play

Collect Your Hand Baggage by John Mortimer [more information]

Play synopsis

'Crispin is a gay, handsome philanderer. But he takes on more than he bargains for when he gets involved with his landlady’s daughter’ (TV Times, 23 August 1963, p. 37).

Production history

Produced in Felixstowe in 1962, and possibly elsewhere earlier.

Date of transmission

Thursday 29 August 1963

Time

9.45-10.45pm

Series

Television Playhouse

Channel

ITV

Production company

Anglia Television (1959-)

Credits

Director

William Kotcheff

Playwright

John Mortimer

Composer

Norman Kay

Designer

Fred Pusey

Cast

Raymond Barry	Porter
Kathleen Breck	Stella
Anne Brooks	Jane
Barry Justice	Michael
Mollie Maureen	Liz
Kenneth More	Crispin
Michael Oxley	Mr Walsh
Billy Russell	Car Park Attendant
Brian Steele	Bill
Peter Thompson	Desk Official
Frances Tobias	American Lady
Jennifer Wilson	Fay Chisholm

Additional details

Play tags

comedy

Print sources

Title

TV Times, 23 August 1963 (Magazine)

Linking notes

cover image; article, pp. 8-9; listing with image, p. 37