"A Month of Sundays (TV play)"
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre episode
Episode no.Season 3
Episode 39
Directed byStephen Harrison
Written byGeorge F. Kerr
Original air dateSeptember 28, 1952 (1952-09-28)

A Month of Sundays is a 1952 British television play by George F. Kerr. It was based on Kerr's experience as a POW. The play was successful and launched Kerr's career as a television writer.[1] The Guardian called it "melodramatic, compelling and finely acted."[2]

Premise

British POWs in a Germany.

Cast

  • Robin Bailey as Calthrop
  • Jack Watling as Parkinson
  • Richard Bebb as Burdett
  • David Yates as Gray
  • Philip Guard as Fisher
  • Charles Hodgson as Guthrie
  • Patrick Waddington as Colonel
  • Peter Bathurst as Major
  • John H. Watson as Adjutant
  • Hugo Schuster as German Commandant

References

  1. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (1939), "STUDIO PORTRAIT George F. KERR", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC (Vol. 20 No. 8 (19 February 1958)), nla.obj-1414279744, retrieved 29 August 2023 via Trove
  2. "Two plays". The Guardian. 8 October 1952. p. 3.
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