UK, 25 December 1949
broadcast live, black and white, 4:3
mono, English
A British fantasy television play directed by an uncredited Michael Barry. It was the first of two performances of the same play, the second being broadcast on 2 January 1950.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Director: Michael Barry *
BBC
Produced by: Michael Barry
[Play] By: A.A. Milne
Adapted for Television by: Michael Barry
From the Book The Wind in the Willows by: Kenneth Grahame
Music by: H. Fraser-Simpson
Orchestra Conducted by: Eric Robinson
Settings and Illustrations by: Barry Learoyd
Répétiteur: Allan Bixter
Dances Arranged by: Viola Merrett
Cast
Heather Lee (Marigold)
Madoline Thomas (mother)
Jack Newmark( Mole)
Andrew Osborn (Water Rat)
Kenneth More (Mr Badger)
James Hayter (Toad)
Victor Woolf, David Askey (Alfred, the horse)
Sam Kydd, Marne Maitland, Patrick Troughton (weasels, ferrets and stoats)
Catherine Summerton (first field mouse)
Musetta Fonneareau (second field mouse)
Michael Nightingale (policeman)
Marne Maitland (gaoler)
Humphrey Lestocq (usher)
Harry Secombe (judge)
Joyce Owen (Turkey)
Barbara Birkinshaw (Duck)
Sam Kydd (Welsh Rabbit)
Humphrey Lestocq (chief weasel)
Jill Balcon (storyteller)
Barbara Birkinshaw, Nina Camlett, Desrie Higgs, Norma Hughes, Joyce Owen, Paddy Russell, Audrey Swift, Pamela Welsh (field mice, rabbits, squirrels, weasels and stoats)
Links
See also
Toad of Toad Hall (1950)
References
Periodicals
- Radio Times vol.104 no.1367 23 December 1949 p.46 – credits
