Simon and Laura
- Summary
- BBC Television production of Alan Melville’s comedy Simon and Laura, presented in the Thursday Theatre strand. It was repeated in the Theatre 625 series in 1966.
- Theatre play
- Simon and Laura by Alan Melville (1910-1983) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 19 November 1964
- Series
- Theatre 625; Thursday Theatre
- Channel
- BBC2
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Director
- Christopher Morahan
- Producer
- Cedric Messina
- Playwright
- Alan Melville (1910-1983)
- Designer
- William McCrow
- Script Editor
- Rosemary Hill
- Cast
Lesley Allen Miss Mills Susan Ashworth Henry Richard Briers David Prentice Ian Carmichael Simon Foster Philo Hauser Wolfie Paul Holdaway Timothy David Jackson Barnie Reg Lever Archie Moira Lister Laura Foster Henry McGee Bert Penny Morrell Janet Honeyman Charles Lloyd Pack Wilson Molly Urquhart Jessie Bruce Wightman Joe
Additional details
- Later transmissions
- BBC2, Theatre 625 series, 6 November 1966 (9.05pm).
- Play tags
- comedy; television, as theme; theatre or acting, as theme
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- Simon and Laura (BBC, 1964)
- Archive
- BBC Information and Archives [more information]
Address
White City
Telephone
London
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Websitehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/
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Print sources
- Title
- Leading Responses (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 13 March 1966, p. 25
- Title
- Simon and Laura on TV (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Mary Crozier (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Guardian, 7 March 1966
- Title
- Theatre 625: Simon and Laura (BBC, 1964) (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/theatre-625-simon-and-laura-bbc-1964, published 28 January 2013
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