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Thank You, Mr Pepys [Act 1]

Summary
1938 BBC Television presentation of Act 1 of the Shaftesbury Theatre production of Thank You, Mr Pepys by W. P. Lipscomb, restaged in the studio at Alexandra Palace.
Theatre play
Thank You, Mr Pepys by W. P. Lipscomb [more information]
Date of transmission
Thursday 6 January 1938
Time
3.30pm (30 mins)
Series
Theatre Parade
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC
Theatre company
Shaftesbury Theatre, London

Credits

Television Presentation by
George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)
Playwright
W. P. Lipscomb
Cast
Barry K. BarnesKing Charles II
Edmund GwennSamuel Pepys
Douglas MatthewsJames, Duke of York
Henry Oscar (1891-1969)Earl of Shaftesbury

Additional details

Origination
Live from studio
Vision original
Monochrome
Later transmissions
Presented again at 3.20pm on Tuesday 8 February 1938.
Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
17th-century setting; comedy; historical drama; monarchy, British

Print sources

Title
Broadcasting (Newspaper listing)
Reference
The Times, 6 January 1938, p. 10
Title
Radio Times, 31 December 1937 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing, p. 17
Title
Radio Times, 4 February 1938 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing, plus two-column picture of Edmund Gwenn, with Marjorie Mars as Nell Gwynn

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