Learning on ScreenThe Goose Girl
- Summary
- 1956 BBC Television production of The Goose Girl, produced for Children’s Television.
- Theatre play
- The Goose Girl by Clifford Williams and Donald Jonson [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Wednesday 26 December 1956
- Series
- Children’s Television
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Shaun Sutton
- Film Cameraman
- Peter Sargent
- Playwright
- Donald Jonson
- Playwright
- Clifford Williams
- Composer
- John Hotchkis
- Conductor
- John Hotchkis (conducted the Goldsborough Orchestra)
- Designer
- Richard Henry
- Film Editor
- Ron de Mattos
- Cast
Garth Adams a minor part Robin Bailey Barnabas the Horse Brenda Bennett a minor part Patrick Cargill The Court Chamberlain Margaret Dale a minor part Colin Douglas The Executioner Alan Edwards the Circus Barker Sheila Shand Gibbs Joan Willoughby Goddard King Percy Bruce Gordon Curdken Daphne Green a minor part Nigel Hawthorne a minor part Vincent Hitchcock a minor part Ivan Owen a minor part Dennis Ramsden The Soldier Christine Russell a minor part Joan Sanderson Queen Beatrice Gregory Scott a minor part James Sharkey Prince Robin Nigel Sharpe a minor part Brian Sheehy a minor part Elaine Usher Princess Lucinda Paddy Ward a minor part Paul Whitsun-Jones The Ringmaster
Additional details
- Later transmissions
- A telerecording was broadcast on 20 December 1957.
- Play tags
- fairy tale; German drama
Print sources
- Title
- Christmas past at the BBC: the second half of the 1950s. Part 1 (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- Amanda Wrigley (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/christmas-past-bbc-1950s-1, published 28 December 2012
- Title
- Christmas past at the BBC: the second half of the 1950s. Part 2 (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- Amanda Wrigley (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/christmas-past-bbc-1950s-2, published 31 December 2012
- Title
- Radio Times, 13 December 1957 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 18
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