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  1. Medea [extract] (ABC Television, 1968)

    Medea by Euripides
    ITV (Tempo)
    Director
    Helen Standage

    ABC Television production for ITV of part of Euripides’ Medea, with the title role played by Sybil Thorndike, for an episode of the arts programme Tempo, entitled The Actor and the Role.

  2. The Father (Associated Television, 1968)

    The Father [Fadren] by August Strindberg (1849-1912)
    ITV (ITV Playhouse)
    Director
    Dennis Vance

    1968 Associated Television production for ITV of The Father by August Strindberg.

  3. The Reluctant Peer [scenes] (BBC, 1964)

    The Reluctant Peer by William Douglas Home (1912-1993)
    BBC Television
    Director
    Charles Hickman

    1964 BBC outside broadcast from the Duchess Theatre, London of scenes from William Douglas Home’s new comedy The Reluctant Peer, which had opened two days earlier.

  4. Riders to the Sea (BBC, 1960)

    Riders to the Sea by J. M. Synge (1871-1909)
    BBC Television (Schools)
    Producer
    George R. Foa

    1960 BBC Television production of Riders to the Sea, J. M. Synge’s one-act play set on the Aran Islands, starring Sybil Thorndike.

  5. Waters of the Moon (BBC, 1959)

    Waters of the Moon by N. C. [Norman Charles] Hunter (1908-1971)
    BBC Television (Sunday-Night Theatre)
    Producer
    Harold Clayton

    BBC Television production of N. C. Hunter’s Waters of the Moon. In the cast Lewis Casson, Edith Evans and Sybil Thorndike reprised the roles they had played on the London stage. The play had proved itself...

  6. Eighty in the Shade [excerpt] (BBC, 1959)

    Eighty in the Shade by Clemence Dane (1888-1965)
    BBC Television
    Director
    Lionel Harris

    BBC presentation of a 45-minute excerpt from London’s Globe Theatre production of Eighty in the Shade, a play written by Clemence Dane especially for Sybil Thorndike.

  7. Before the Party (Associated Television, 1958)

    Before the Party by Rodney Ackland (1908-1991)
    ITV (Television Playhouse)
    Director
    Lionel Harris

    1958 Associated Television production of Before the Party by Rodney Ackland, a play based on a Somerset Maugham short story.

  8. Cymbeline [scenes] (BBC, 1956)

    Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
    BBC Television

    BBC presentation of scenes from Michael Benthall’s current Old Vic production of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.

  9. Sun Up (BBC, 1949)

    Sun Up by Lula Wollmer (1898-1955)
    BBC Television
    Producer
    George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)

    1939 BBC studio production of Lula Wollmer’s American folk drama Sun Up, which was Sybil Thorndike’s television debut.