UK, 28 March 1948
broadcast live, black and white, 4:3
mono, English
A British fantasy television play.
Plot Summary
A successful but dispirited playwright is supervising the rehearsals of his new play, The Glass Door, at an old theatre in North England. The actors are irritated by his cynical attitude, but when left alone in the darkened green room he experiences visions of a 19th-century tragedy which alter his outlook on his profession.
Credits
Crew
BBC
Producer: Harold Clayton
Writer: J. B. Priestley
Settings: Barry Learoyd
Cast
Present-day characters
Leslie Banks (Martin Cheveril)
Daphne Arthur (Ann Seward)
Joan Carol (Pauline Fraser)
William Roderick (James Whitefoot)
Fred Groves (Alfred Leathers)
Julian Dallas (Wing-Commander Robert Peak)
Cameron Hall (Otley)
Robert Sansom (Dr Cave)
Sidney Monckton (Mayor of Barton Spa)
Characters of a hundred years ago
Daphne Arthur (Jenny Villiers)
Julian Dallas (Julian Napier)
Robert Atkins (Edmund Ludlow)
Agnes Lauchlan (Fanny Ludlow)
Donald Eccles (Walter Kettle)
Fred Groves (John Stokes)
Duncan Lewis (Sam Moon)
Charles Lloyd Pack (Augustus Ponsonby)
Beckett Bould (Jacob G. Mangles)
Donald E. Tandy (journalist)
Arthur Seaton (landlord)
Howard Douglas (Spragg)
Joy Adamson (first actress)
Jane Holland (second actress)
Winifred Hill (nurse)
Charles Cornock (doctor)
Frederick Ross (Sir Romford Tiverton)
