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. Barnes King Charles II Edmund Gwenn Samuel Pepys Douglas Matthews James, 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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