Learning on ScreenThe Petrified Forest
- Summary
- 1951 BBC Television production of Robert E. Sherwood’s The Petrified Forest.
- Theatre play
- The Petrified Forest by Robert E. Sherwood (1896-1955) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 20 May 1951
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Royston Morley
- Playwright
- Robert E. Sherwood (1896-1955)
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
Robert Ayres Duke Mantee Jane Barrett Gabby Maple Ernest Borrow Sheriff Ray Byrnes Narrator / radio announcer Paul Erickson Telegraph Linesman Joslyn Haase Joseph Charles Irwin Ruby Dan Jackson Pyles Alan Keith Jackie Sidney [or "Sydney"?] Keith Jason Maple Anna Korda Paula Gerald C. Lawson Grandpa Maple Gerald ['Gerry’] Metcalfe Bose Hertzlinger Douglass Montgomery Alan Squier Doris Nolan Mrs Chisholm Macdonald Parke Mr Chisholm Cyril Saxon Deputy Sheriff Spencer Teakle Another Lineman
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.00pm on Thursday 24 May 1951.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- America, as theme or setting; end-of-the-world; thriller
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 18 May 1951 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 41 and article by Lionel Hale, ‘The Petrified Forest’, p. 40
- Title
- The Intimate Screen: Early British Television Drama (Book)
- Author/creator
- Jason Jacobs (Author)
- Reference
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
- Linking notes
- p. 12
- Title
- The Television Cook (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 23 May 1951, p. 3
- Title
- To-day’s Programmes (Newspaper listing)
- Reference
- The Observer, 20 May 1951, p. 6
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