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ITV Play of the Week

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Cast
  
Gwen Watford

Executive producer
  
Philip Mackie

7.9/10
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Writers
  
Philip Mackie

Awards
  
British Academy Television Award for Best Actress

Nominations
  
British Academy Television Award for Best Design

Similar
  
Armchair Theatre, The Wednesday Play, Theatre 625, ITV Sunday Night Theatre, No Hiding Place

ITV Play of the Week is a 90 minute UK television anthology series produced by Granada Television. From 1955 to 1974 approximately 500 episodes aired on the ITV.

Episodes included:

  • The Adding Machine
  • The Seagull
  • Look Back in Anger
  • Morning's at Seven
  • Death of a Salesman
  • The Importance of Being Ernest
  • Playboy of the Western World
  • The Skin of Our Teeth
  • The Member of the Wedding
  • The House of Bernarda Alba
  • The Birthday Party,
  • I Remember Mama,
  • The Lark,
  • The Rose Tattoo
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Come Back, Little Sheba
  • You in Your Small Corner

    • Among its directors were Tony Richardson, Peter Wood (director), Peter Brook, Vivian Matalon, and Desmond Davis.

    Notable guest stars included Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Peter O'Toole, Laurence Olivier, Vivian Leigh, Maggie Smith, Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Judi Dench, Deborah Kerr, Paul Scofield, Laurence Harvey, Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Leslie Caron, Richard Harris, Edith Evans, James Mason, Claire Bloom, David McCallum, Donald Sutherland, John Gielgud, Oliver Reed, Mel Ferrer, Diana Rigg and Margaret Whiting.

    References

    ITV Play of the Week Wikipedia
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