For Services Rendered

Summary

Granada Television production for ITV of For Services Rendered by W. Somerset Maugham.

Theatre play

For Services Rendered by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) [more information]

Play synopsis

This anti-war play is about the effects of World War I on an English family. Set in the house of a prosperous Kentish solicitor whose family (wife, daughters, their husbands and his war-blinded son) all suffered from the war.

Production history

First performed in London in 1932.

Date of transmission

Tuesday 7 July 1959

Time

8.30pm

Series

Play of the Week

Channel

ITV

Production company

Granada Television (1956-)

Credits

Director

Henry Kaplan

Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Adapted for Television by

Francis Crowdy

Designer

Darrell Lars

Cast

David Brierley	an unnamed part
Charles Carson (1885-1977)	Leonard Ardsley
Georgina Cookson	Gwen Cedar
William Fox	Wilfred Cedar
Julia Hand	Gertrude
Jack Hedley	Howard Bartlett
Ursula Howells	Eva Ardsley
Margo Johns	Ethel Bartlett
Alison Leggatt	Mrs Ardsley
Carole Mowlam	an unnamed part
Anthony Newlands	Sydney Ardsley
Maggie Smith	Lois Ardsley
Victor Tandy	an unnamed part
Robert Urquhart	Collie Stratton

Additional details

Play tags

First World War, as theme or setting; wartime, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

African Epic (Newspaper review)

Reference

The Observer, 12 July 1959, p. 10

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, 3 July 1959 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 4