Pick-up Girl

Summary

1957 Granada Television production for ITV of Pick-up Girl by Elsa Shelley.

Theatre play

Pick-up Girl by Elsa Shelley [more information]

Play synopsis

An American court-room drama in which a fifteen-year-old girl is put on trial for an act of ‘immorality’ with an older man. The play concerns prostitution, sexually transmitted disease and abortion.

Production history

Originally titled You and Me. Dated to 1944.

Date of transmission

Friday 6 December 1957

Time

9.00pm

Channel

ITV

Production company

Granada Television (1956-)

Credits

Director

Herbert Wise

Playwright

Elsa Shelley

Adapted for Television by

Ken Hoare

Designer

Stanley Mills

Cast

Michael Bell	Attendant
Tom Busby	Larry
Maria Charles	Ruby
Liam Gaffney	Brill
Laurrie Garner	Mrs Busch
Joan Heath	Mrs Marti
Percy Herbert	Mr Collins
Neil McCallum	Peter Marti
André Morell	Judge
Janet Munro	Elizabeth Collins
Bill Nagy	Owens
Stuart Nichol	Elliott
Anne Pichon	Miss Porter
Margot van der Burgh	Mrs Collins

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

adolescence; America, as theme or setting; court-room drama; sexuality (and morality, politics etc); wartime, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

Plays for the Millions: The First 75. A Cross Index of Granada TV Play Productions (Book)

Reference

Published by Granada TV Network, 1960

Title

TV Times, 29 November 1957 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 35