Merry Wives of Windsor, The

Synopsis: Televised production of the play directed by Ian Atkins with Robert Atkins as Falstaff.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Television
Transmission details: 16 Nov 1952 at 20:40 (Channel: BBC)
Duration: 100 mins
Availability: Unavailable

Notes: Production cost: £ 2.148 (BBC Play Library).

The Birmingham Shakespeare Library holds a BBC TV script.
History: One of the early television "live" studio recordings. Production costs amounted to approximately £2.000.
Figures: Reaction Index 41 (the lowest figure to date for a Shakespeare play) (BBC Audience Research). The Reaction Index is a measurement of the quality and success of the programme with the audience who had watched it. It is based on a range of 0 to 100.)

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Robert Atkins	Sir John Falstaff
Mary Kerridge	Mistress Margaret Page
Betty Huntley-Wright	Mistress Alice Ford
Helene Burle	Mistress Quickly
Alfie Bass	Nym (Nim)
Charles Mander	John Rugby
Clement Hamelin	Pistol
Elizabeth Regan	Anne Page
Erik Chitty	Justice Shallow (Robert Shallow)
Hugh Pryse	Sir Hugh Evans
Meadows White	Host of the Garter Inn
Milo Sperber	Doctor Caius
Peter Bennett (2)	Bardolph
Peter Franklyn	Servant
Peter Rendall	Fenton
Robert Beaumont	Abraham Slender
Rupert Davies	George Page
Sydney Bromley	Peter Simple
Thomas Moore	Robin
William Glover	Servant

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