UK, 22 December 1957
90m
broadcast live, videotape, black and white, 4:3
mono, English
A British borderline fantasy television play directed by Jack Williams. It was broadcast live but a videotaped recording was later junked by the BBC.
Plot Summary
When Mrs Frush complains to Sir Hector Benbow that Thark, the large country house he sold her, is haunted a group of people descend on the place in search of ghosts.
Credits
Crew
Directed for the Stage by: Jack Williams
BBC
Television Presentation by: Alan Chivers
Based on the Stage Play by: Ben Travers
Designed for the Stage by: Rhoda Gray
Cast
Diana Calderwood (Cherry Buck)
Hazel Douglas (Warner)
Fabia Drake (Mrs Frush)
Ann Firbank (Kitty Stratton)
Leo Franklyn (Sir Hector Benbow)
Basil Lord (Lionel Tooth)
Peter Mercier (Whittle)
Larry Noble (Hook)
Cicely Paget-Bowman (Lady Benbow)
Brian Rix (Ronald Gamble)
John Slater (Jones)
Links
See also
ATV Today: 8 June 1961
Comedy Matinee: Thark (1961)
The Jazz Age: Thark (1968)
Thark (1932)
Thark (1948)
