Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1948b)

UK, 30 December 1948g
105m
broadcast live, black and white, 4:3
mono, English

A British fantasy television play directed by an uncredited John Glyn-Jones, broadcast live and never recorded. It was the second of two stagings of the same production, the other being on 25 December 1948.

Plot Summary

An adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s novel.

Credits

* = uncredited

Crew
Directed by: John Glyn-Jones *
BBC
Production by: John Glyn-Jones
Adapted by: John Glyn-Jones
Based on the Books by: Lewis Carroll
Based on the play by: Herbert M. Prentice
Music Composed by: Alfred Reynolds
Orchestra Directed by: Alfred Reynolds
Settings by: Barry Learoyd
Dances Staged by: Sheila Rawle

Cast
James McKechnie (Lewis Carroll)
Margaret Barton (Alice)
Roddy Hughes (White Rabbit)
Cameron Miller (Caterpillar)
Walter Plinge (The Frog Footman)
Beatrice Rowe (Cook)
Olive Walter (Duchess)
Morris Sweden (Cheshire Cat)
Anthony Oliver (March Hare)
Robert Webber (Mad Hatter)
Charles Wade (Dormouse)
Ray James (Two of Spades)
Archie Angus (Five of Spades)
Derek Ensor (Seven of Spades)
Bruce Belfrage (King of Hearts)
Sybil Arundale (Queen of Hearts)
Victor Platt (Knave of Hearts)
Stewart Vartan (executioner/Walrus)
Dennis Bowen (Gryphon)
Gordon Bell (Mock Turtle)
Louise Hampton (The Red Queen)
Ian Wallace (Tweedledum)
James Hayter (Tweedledee)
Charles Rolfe (Carpenter)
Ann Codrington (The White Queen)
Jack Howarth (Humpty-Dumpty)
Harold Scott (The White King)
Anthony Sharp (The White Knight)