Spring and Port Wine [extract]
- Summary
- This Rediffusion presentation for ITV of a 25-minute extract from Bill Naughton’s play Spring and Port Wine was an outside broadcast from the Apollo Theatre, London. Introductory and closing material for this extract, which was presented in the series In the West End Tonight, was written by the playwright and spoken by Albert Finney.
- Theatre play
- Spring and Port Wine by Bill Naughton (1910-1992) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Wednesday 2 February 1966
- Time
- 9.10-9.40pm
- Series
- In the West End Tonight
- Channel
- ITV
- Production company
- Rediffusion (1964-68)
Credits
- Television Production by
- Jim Pople
- Theatre Director
- Allan Davis
- Playwright
- Bill Naughton (1910-1992)
- Designer
- Hutchinson Scott
- Introduced by
- Albert Finney
- Cast
John Alderton Harold Crompton Jan Carey Hilda Crompton Ruth Dunning Daisy Crompton Melvyn Hayes Wilfred Crompton Alfred Marks Rafe Crompton Raymond Mort Arthur Jennifer Wilson Florence Crompton
Additional details
- Notes
- Spring and Port Wine (1967; a revision of his earlier play My Flesh, My Blood; also published as Keep It in the Family; filmed 1970).
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- generational relations or conflict; north of England, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- In the West End Tonight (Archive file)
- Archive
- BFI Reuben Library [more information]
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- Reference
- Special Collections, Associated-Rediffusion Television papers, file reference ART/668
- Notes
- This file contains document for the transmission of extracts from a theatre production of Spring and Port Wine.
- Title
- TV Times, 27 January 1966 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 38
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