Over the Garden Fence

Summary

BBC Television production of Elizabeth Addyman’s Over the Garden Fence by the Arthur Brough Players of Folkstone. (This was the Players’ television debut.) Radio Times, 17 February 1956, p. 20 states that this transmission was ‘From the Leas Pavilion, Folkestone’. The production was presented as part of the BBC’s attempt to televise the activities of repertory theatres.

Theatre play

Over the Garden Fence by Elizabeth Addyman [more information]

Play synopsis

The play is described as a ‘homely drama’, set ‘in a new housing estate near London’ (Radio Times, 17 February 1956, p. 20).

Production history

The Arthur Brough Players staged this play, written by one of its members, at the Leas Pavilion in Folkstone before it was televised by the BBC in 1956.

Date of transmission

Sunday 19 February 1956

Time

8.15pm (75 mins)

Series

Sunday-Night Theatre

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Theatre company

Arthur Brough Players, Folkestone

Credits

Television Presentation by

John Jacobs

Television Presentation by

John Vernon

Playwright

Elizabeth Addyman

Designer

Robert Packman

Cast

Elizabeth Addyman	Elaine Bennett-Smith
Muriel Barker	Wendy Miller
Martin Bradley	Major Bennett-Smith
Arthur Brough	Fred Wilson
John Grant	Derek Bennett-Smith
Valerie Kirkbright	Dorothy Wilson
Mary Russell	Ada Wilson
Robert Scroggins	Jim Wilson
Peter Walter	John Miller

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 17 February 1956 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing and article on ‘Television and Repertory’ on p. 20

Title

TV to Show Queen at Guildhall: Lunch with Lord Mayor (Newspaper article)

Reference

The Manchester Guardian, 8 February 1956, p. 4