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A Policeman’s Lot

Summary
1959 BBC Television production of A Policeman’s Lot by Christopher Bond.
Theatre play
A Policeman’s Lot by Christopher Bond [more information]
Date of transmission
Sunday 8 March 1959
Time
8.30pm (90 mins)
Series
Sunday-Night Theatre; Brian Rix Presents
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Director
Wallace Douglas
Television Presentation by
Mary Evans
Playwright
Christopher Bond
Sets / Settings
Rhoda Gray
Cast
Garth Adams
Diana Calderwood
Leo Franklyn
Joan Hickson
Helen Jessop
Peter Mercier
Larry Noble
Brian Rix (1924-)
John Sharp

Additional details

Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
farce; north of England, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title
Eccentricity in Television Portrait of an Artist (Newspaper review)
Reference
The Times, 9 March 1959, p. 5
Title
Policeman’s Week (Magazine review)
Author/creator
Ivor Brown (Reviewer)
Reference
The Listener, 12 March 1959, p. 485
Title
Radio Times, 6 March 1959 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing and photograph on p. 13

Record Stats

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