Plunder

Summary

BBC production of Ben Travers’ farce Plunder.

Theatre play

Plunder by Ben Travers [more information]

Play synopsis

This farce involves a gentleman crook and his ‘sister’ who persuade a boyhood friend to assist them in a jewel robbery. The victim is a wealthy widow who married her husband for his money. The gang outwit Scotland Yard by sticking together to the end.

Production history

First given on 26 June 1928 at the Aldwych Theatre, London, ‘the fifth in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented by the actor-manager Tom Walls at the theatre between 1923 and 1933’ (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunder_%28play%29).

Date of transmission

Sunday 11 August 1957

Time

8.00pm

Series

Sunday-Night Theatre

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Jack Williams

Television Presentation by

Alan Chivers

Playwright

Ben Travers

Sets / Settings

Malcolm Goulding

Cast

Garth Adams	Det Sgt. Bryant
Anthony Broughton	Police Constable Davis
Diana Calderwood	Prudence Malone
Charles Cameron	Sir George Chudleigh
Robert Cawdron	Simon Veal
Hubert Cross	Buckley
Hazel Douglas	Mrs Orlock
Beryl Ede	Mabel
Leo Franklyn	Chief Det. Insp. Sibley
Elspeth Gray	Joan Hewlett
Peter Gray	Freddy Malone
Hattie Jacques	Mrs Hewlett
Peter Mercier	Det. Sgt. Marchant
Larry Noble	Oswald Veal
Arthur Rigby	Chief Superintendent Grierson
Brian Rix (1924-)	D’Arcy Tuck

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

comedy; crime; farce

Print sources

Title

Children Get the Best of it: Good Dickens Serial (Newspaper review)

Reference

The Manchester Guardian, 12 August 1957, p. 3

Title

Radio Times, 9 August 1957 (Magazine)

Linking notes

cover image and pp. 8 and 9 (illustrated article and listing)