Learning on ScreenYou, Too, Can Have a Body
- Summary
- This BBC presentation of F. A. Robinson’s comedy You, Too, Can Have a Body, from the Whitehall Theatre in London, was acted by the cast of the current Whitehall production of the farce Dry Rot (Radio Times, 1 March 1957, p. 13).
- Theatre play
- You, Too, Can Have a Body by F. A. Robinson [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 3 March 1957
- Time
- 9.05pm (85 mins)
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre; Brian Rix Presents
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Director
- Henry Kendall
- Television Presentation by
- Alan Chivers
- Playwright
- F. A. Robinson
- Sets / Settings
- Rhoda Gray
- Cast
Garth Adams Policeman Bill Bailey Policeman Morris Bennis Child Anthony Broughton Policeman Diana Calderwood June Rivers Charles Cameron Detective-Inspector Bolton Elizabeth Chambers Shirley Drake Anne Cooke Child Ray Cooney Policeman Hazel Douglas Maud Tarrant Beryl Ede Mrs Porchester Leo Franklyn Pringle David Franks Child Damaris Hayman Child Basil Lord Lucky Wilson Peter Mercier Police-Sergeant Bell Sheila Mercier Policewoman Larry Noble Mervyn Harvey Cicely Paget-Bowman Laura Harvey Toby Perkins Policeman Kynaston Reeves Lord Leverdale Brian Rix (1924-) Chick Wade
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- comedy; television, as theme; thriller
Print sources
- Title
- BBC Television: You, Too, Can Have a Body (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 4 March 1957, p. 3
- Title
- Hero’s Quack-Box (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 10 March 1957, p. 14
- Title
- Radio Times, 1 March 1957 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 13
- Title
- You, Too, Can Have a Body: For Television Addicts (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 4 June 1958, p. 5
- Notes
- passing mention at line 7
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