Our Town
- Summary
- BBC production of Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town.
- Theatre play
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 3 February 1957
- Time
- 8.30pm
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Alvin Rakoff
- Playwright
- Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
- Adaptor of Script
- Alvin Rakoff
- Designer
- Stephen Taylor
- Cast
Sheldon Allan Baseball Player Three John Arnatt Mr Webbb Mark Baker Simon Stimson Mary Barclay Mrs Webb Virginia Bedard Make-up Lady / Second Dead Woman Michael Bell Boom Operator / Second Dead Man Gaylord Cavallaro Man in Gantry / Sam Craig Terry Cooke Joe Crowell; Baseball Player One Brenda Duncan First Dead Woman Catherine George Rebecca Alan Gifford Dr Gibbs Allan Jeayes Constable Warren Fred Johnson Joe Stoddard Kevin Kelly Wally Webb Malcolm Knight Baseball Player Two Bessie Love Mrs Gibbs Neil McCallum George Gibbs Tucker McGuire Mrs Soames Gordon Phillott Professor Willard Michael Saunders Si Cromwell Heather Sears Emily Webb Gordon Sterne Howie Newsome Kevin Stoney First Dead Man John Welsh Stage Manager
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- American drama; television, as theme
Print sources
- Title
- BBC Television: Our Town (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 4 February 1957, p. 4
- Title
- Cupid & Charon (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 10 February 1957, p. 11
- Title
- Radio Times, 1 February 1957 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- pp. 6, 14 and 15, listing and articles
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