Television World Theatre

examining BBC production documentation and audience research to identify the institutional discourses that surrounded the making and transmission of these programmes. Recurrent arguments throughout the production of the series form a framework of institutional expectations within which classic theatrical plays were commissioned, made and presented for BBC Television. Having identified these questions (relating to audience address, populism, and the viability of creating a unified ‘house style’ across the diverse plays included in an anthology series), the article assesses the contemporary press discourse surrounding Television World Theatre before concluding with a consideration of how the experience of Television World Theatre affected expectations the next time that the BBC attempted a similar project in Festival (1963–1964).

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 346891
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired December 29, 1957
  • Recent February 9, 1958
  • Network BBC
  • Average Runtime 60 minutes
  • Genres Comedy Drama
  • Original Country Great Britain
  • Original Language English
  • On Other Sites IMDB
  • Episode Screenshot Format 4:3 Screencap
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Season 1 December 1957 February 1958 14
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Unassigned Episodes 14
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Unassigned Episodes 14

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Name Number of Episodes Dates
Alan Bromly 1 02/09/1958
Harold Clayton 1 01/05/1958
Peter Dews 1 12/29/1957
Name Number of Episodes Dates
D.J. Campbell 1 02/09/1958
Anton Chekhov 1 01/05/1958
William Shakespeare 1 12/29/1957

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