The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse

Summary

1951 BBC Television production of Barré Lyndon’s comedy-thriller The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse.

Theatre play

The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse by Barré Lyndon [more information]

Play synopsis

A comedy-thriller in which a Harley Street doctor takes up a life of crime in order to conduct research on the emotional reactions of criminals to their mode of employment. He finds it difficult to get out once his research is completed.

Production history

Premiered on 6 August 1936 at the Haymarket Theatre, London where it ran for nearly 500 performances; published London: Hamish Hamilton 1936 and London: French 1938.

Date of transmission

Sunday 27 May 1951

Time

8.25-9.55pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Harold Clayton

Playwright

Barré Lyndon

Cast

Richard Caldicot	Benny Kellerman
Helen Cherry	Nurse Ann
Edward Evans	Sergeant Bates
Charles Farrell	'Pal’ Green
Alexander Field	'Oakie’
Wyndham Goldie (1897-1957)	Sir William Grant, KC
Jack Lambert	Detective-Inspector Charles
Robert Raglan	'Tug’ Wilson
Susan Shaw	Daisy
Hugh Sinclair	Dr Clitterhouse
Gerald Vane	A Constable
Meadows [or Meadow] White	'Badger’ Lee

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Presented again at 8.20pm on Thursday 31 May 1951.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

comedy; crime; medical drama; thriller

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 25 May 1951 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article, p. 40; listing and actor photographs, p. 41

Title

Radio Times, 5 July 1957 (Magazine)

Linking notes

passing mention on p. 8