Haul for the Shore
- Summary
- 1959 BBC Television production of Jean McConnell’s comedy Haul for the Shore, from the BBC’s West of England television studio. Parts of the play were filmed at Port Isaac in north Cornwall, ‘with actors and local people mingling. To get local colour the producer, Patrick Dromgoole, twice went for twelve-hour trips with lobster fisherman’ (Radio Times, 16 October 1959, p. 5).
- Theatre play
- Haul for the Shore by Jean McConnell [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Saturday 24 October 1959
- Time
- 8.35pm
- Series
- Saturday Playhouse
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Patrick Dromgoole
- Film Cameraman
- Denis Towler
- Playwright
- Jean McConnell
- Composer
- Sidney Sager
- Designer
- Desmond Chinn
- Narrator
- Bernard Fishwick
- Cast
Daphne Anderson Polly Ipplepen June Barrie Maisie Robert Brown Richard Pengelly Constance Chapman Sarah Trowt William Devlin (1911-1987) The Rev. Leslie Fox Bernard Fishwick Second Visitor Lewis Gedge First Visitor Hedley Goodall Jem Burden Reginald Smith Petrock Pook George Woodbridge PC Widdon Joan Young Dr Clifford
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- comedy; Cornwall, as theme or setting; smuggling
Print sources
- Title
- BBC Programmes for the Weekend (Newspaper listing)
- Reference
- The Times, 24 October 1959, p. 3
- Title
- Radio Times, 16 October 1959 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article and listing on p. 25; another article on p. 5
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