Dear Delinquent [excerpt]

Summary

BBC presentation of a 45-minute excerpt from Jack Popplewell’s Dear Delinquent in a special performance from the Westminster Theatre, London.

Theatre play

Dear Delinquent by Jack Popplewell (1911-1996) [more information]

Play synopsis

Comedy in which David Warren sets on reforming the young woman Penelope Shawn after he finds her attempting to burgle his flat.

Production history

West End premiere at the Westminster Theatre, London in 1957.

Date of transmission

Monday 1 July 1957

Time

8.30pm

Series

Theatre Night

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Jack Minster

Television Presentation by

John Vernon

Playwright

Jack Popplewell (1911-1996)

Sets / Settings

Hutchinson Scott

Cast

Patrick Cargill	Wilkinson
Laurence Hardy	Harry Shawn
Joan Haythorne	Lady Warren
Duncan Lewis	Detective Sergeant Pidgeon
Josephine Martin	Helen Chandler
Anna Massey	Penelope Shawn
David Tomlinson	David Warren

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

comedy

Print sources

Title

BBC Programmes (Newspaper listing)

Reference

The Times, 1 July 1957, p. 6

Title

Radio Times, 28 June 1957 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article, with photograph, and listing on p. 13

Title

Westminster Theatre: Dear Delinquent (Newspaper review)

Reference

The Times, 6 June 1957, p. 3

Linking notes

n.b. this is a review of the stage production, not the televised excerpt