Learning on ScreenThe Survivors
- Summary
- BBC production of Peter Viertel and Irwin Shaw’s play The Survivors.
- Theatre play
- The Survivors by Peter Viertel and Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 16 May 1957
- Time
- 8.30pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producers
- Michael Elliott, Casper Wrede
- Playwright
- Irwin Shaw (1913-1984)
- Playwright
- Peter Viertel
- Designer
- Norman James
- Cast
John Abineri Morgan Decker Patrick Allen Vincent Keves Jean Anderson Jane Decker Robert Ayres Rutson Hedge Joby Blanshard Leonard Hawkes George A. Cooper Roy Clemens Avril Elgar Lucy Dunne John Garley Alcott John Hall Marcus Michael Hitchnian Reverend Hoyt Roddy Hughes Sheriff Bagley Anthony Jacobs Finlay Decker Wilfred [or Wilfrid] Lawson Jodine Decker James Maxwell Steve Decker Jerold Wells Tom Cameron
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting; America, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- BBC Television: The Survivors (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 17 May 1957, p. 3
- Title
- Radio Times, 10 May 1957 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article on p. 7 and illustrated listing on p. 21
- Title
- The Survivors (Audience Research Report)
- Archive
- BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) [more information]
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- Reference
- Report reference VR/57/273, held in file R9/7/28
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