"the role of Christopher Wren, was the only actor to make the transition from the radio production to the stage play. No recording of the original radio play exists and the script is not commercially available. Further, Christie asked that the short story not be published in the UK as long as ""The Mousetrap"" continued to run on the stage. The text of the latter play was published in 1954 by Samuel French as 'French's Acting Edition No 153' and also in the HarperCollins 1993 collection ""The Mousetrap and Other Plays"" (). Director/Producer: Martyn C. Webster Cast: ""Barry Morse"" played"
"Three Blind Mice (radio play and short story) Three Blind Mice is the name of a half-hour radio play written by Agatha Christie and broadcast on the BBC Light Programme at 8.00pm on Friday 30 May 1947. It was part of an evening of programmes in honour of the eightieth birthday of Queen Mary. The BBC had approached the Queen some months before and asked what programmes she would like to hear. Amongst a selection of music and variety, she requested something by Christie who was a writer she admired. Christie agreed, asking that her fee of one hundred Guineas"
"Giles Davis ""Belle Chrystall"" played Molly Davis ""Gladys Young"" played Mrs Boyle ""Richard Williams"" played Major Metcalf ""Raf De La Torre"" played Mr Paravicini ""Allan McClelland"" played Christopher Wren ""Lewis Stringer"" played Detective-Sergeant Trotter ""Lydia Sherwood"" played Mrs Lyon Other parts were played by Marjorie Westbury, David Kossoff and Duncan McIntyre Three Blind Mice (radio play and short story) Three Blind Mice is the name of a half-hour radio play written by Agatha Christie and broadcast on the BBC Light Programme at 8.00pm on Friday 30 May 1947. It was part of an evening of programmes in honour of the"
"on not only writing, but also directing the play. The show began a tour throughout the eastern half of the United States and into Canada in early 1950, after adjustments in the show insisted upon by Douglas were made, and ran throughout the year. The show kept Douglas away from California during his wife Helen Gahagan Douglas's run for United States Senate against Richard Nixon, a campaign which proved extremely nasty. Two Blind Mice Two Blind Mice was a 1949 comedy play by Samuel and Bella Spewack. The play ran on Broadway at the Cort Theatre for 157 performances, from"
"Two Blind Mice Two Blind Mice was a 1949 comedy play by Samuel and Bella Spewack. The play ran on Broadway at the Cort Theatre for 157 performances, from March 2, 1949 to July 16, 1949, and thereafter had a lengthy provincial tour. The play starred Melvyn Douglas as Tommy Thurston, newspaper reporter and was produced by Archer King and Harrison Woodhull. The plot revolves around the Office of Medicinal Herbs, a fictitious U.S. government bureau abolished by Congress four years before the setting of the play. Its two elderly officials have refused to accept the closing of the office,"
"early 1950s, he made no commercial films. Valentine Davies adapted the screenplay from the play ""Three Blind Mice"" by Stephen Powys (aka, Guy Bolton). Fox had acquired the American rights to the play in 1937, first making a non-musical 1938 movie (also called ""Three Blind Mice""). It was adapted as the movie musical ""Moon Over Miami"" in 1941 before being tapped again five years later as the basis for ""Three Little Girls in Blue"". The plot—three fortune-hunting sisters encounter humorous difficulties—was scarcely altered; even the character names are largely unchanged from the play. The locale was shifted to Atlantic City"
"Three Blind Mice (1938 film) Three Blind Mice is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Loretta Young, Joel McCrea, and David Niven that was based upon a play by Stephen Powys. Three Kansas sisters, owners of a chicken farm, dream of a different life. Pamela (Loretta Young) pretends to be a rich lady, Moira (Marjorie Weaver) her personal maid and Elizabeth (Pauline Moore) her personal secretary. When they inherit $5872, Pam decides to head to California in search of a rich husband, which will make it much easier for her sisters to do"
"the opposite of what she said to her sisters at the beginning. Three Blind Mice (1938 film) Three Blind Mice is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Loretta Young, Joel McCrea, and David Niven that was based upon a play by Stephen Powys. Three Kansas sisters, owners of a chicken farm, dream of a different life. Pamela (Loretta Young) pretends to be a rich lady, Moira (Marjorie Weaver) her personal maid and Elizabeth (Pauline Moore) her personal secretary. When they inherit $5872, Pam decides to head to California in search of a rich"
"Three Blind Mouseketeers Three Blind Mouseketeers is a Silly Symphonies cartoon based on the nursery rhyme ""Three Blind Mice"" and the novel ""The Three Musketeers"" by Alexandre Dumas. Directed by Dave Hand and Jack Cutting, it stars Billy Bletcher. The Three Blind Mice are musketeers that live in a cellar. Captain Katt (the devious cat) sets a number of traps for them and goes to sleep. Then the musketeers come out to search for food evading all the clutches. The cat eventually wakes up and begins chasing them, but they escape thanks to their teamwork. The cartoon was aired on"
"Three Blind Mice ""Three Blind Mice"" is an English-language nursery rhyme and musical round. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3753. The modern words are: Published by Frederick Warne & Co., an illustrated children's book by John W. Ivimey entitled ""The Complete Version of Ye Three Blind Mice"", fleshes the mice out into mischievous characters who seek adventure, eventually being taken in by a farmer whose wife chases them from the house and into a bramble bush, which blinds them. Soon after, their tails are removed by ""the butcher's wife"" when the complete version incorporates the original"
"See How They Run (play) See How They Run is an English comedy in three acts by Philip King. Its title is a line from the nursery rhyme ""Three Blind Mice"". It is considered a farce for its tense comic situations and headlong humour, heavily playing on mistaken identity, doors, and vicars. In 1955 it was adapted as a film starring Roland Culver. King wrote the first act in 1942 under the title ""Moon Madness"", with the final act completed in 1943. His play was first staged by Henry Kendall at the Peterborough Rep in 1944 prior to a British"
"Its third and final incarnation on radio was a bit more complicated, as explained on The Digital Deli Too website: The emerging popularity of between three and five other popular playhouse formats of the early 1950s persuaded Philip Morris to resurrect its ""Philip Morris Playhouse"" a third time as ""Phillip Morris Playhouse On Broadway"", beginning with its initial CBS run on March 15, 1951. Emphasizing Broadway productions, the subsequent series ran over CBS for twenty-six installments, only to jump to NBC on September 11, 1951. The series ran on NBC for the remainder of 1951, jumping back to CBS on"
"was revived in a UK touring production featuring short actors by Warwick Davis's Reduced Height Theatre Company. See How They Run (play) See How They Run is an English comedy in three acts by Philip King. Its title is a line from the nursery rhyme ""Three Blind Mice"". It is considered a farce for its tense comic situations and headlong humour, heavily playing on mistaken identity, doors, and vicars. In 1955 it was adapted as a film starring Roland Culver. King wrote the first act in 1942 under the title ""Moon Madness"", with the final act completed in 1943. His"
"but was also awarded Best Play by the Federation of Commercial Radio Stations. It was presented again in 1952. It was adapted for US television making it the first Australian play to be done on American television. it aired on 30 March 19490 and was directed by Stanley Quin. It starred Ron Randell, an Australian actor. The production was well received and launched Elliott's career in New York as a TV writer. Wicked Is the Vine Wicked is the Vine is a 1947 radio play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It was inspired by the Lizzie Borden murder. In 1918, two"
"was also successful in the theatre. The first of his radio plays to make his reputation was ""Mathry Beacon"" (1956), about a small detachment of men and women still guarding a Top Secret ""missile deflector"" somewhere in Wales, years after the war has ended. Bill Naughton's radio play ""Alfie Elkins and his Little Life"" (1962) was first broadcast on the ""BBC Third Programme"" on 7 January 1962. In it Alfie, ""[w]ith sublime amorality... swaggers and philosophises his way through"" life. The action spans about two decades, from the beginning of World War II to the late 1950s. In 1964, Bill"
"Radio 3 gave the first radio broadcast on 20 December 2009, directed by Roland Jaquarello. A Whistle in the Dark A Whistle in the Dark is a play by Tom Murphy that premiered in 1961 at the Theatre Royal Stratford East London, having been rejected by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. It then went on to be a West End hit. Murphy was twenty-five years old at the time. It tells the story in three acts of the climactic confrontation between Michael, the oldest of the Carney sons, and his father and brothers, a brawling, hard-drinking, criminal gang of Irish immigrants"
"in the Birmingham Rep's revival of the play in March–April 1945. Lucas's radio play ""The Siren"" was first broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in 1948, with Catherine Lacey, Frith Banbury and Deryck Guyler in the cast; a second production followed on the Home Service in 1949, with Cathleen Nesbitt and Hugh Burden. The play dramatises George Sand's amorous escapades in Paris and Italy with Alfred de Musset and Dr. Pietro Pagello – the subject of the 1999 film ""Les Enfants du Siècle"". His political drama ""The Bear Dances: A Play in Three Acts"" was the first dramatisation of the"
"spiel morphs into a close paraphrase of Molly Bloom's Soliloquy which closes James Joyce's novel ""Ulysses"". This is presented as an episode (titled ""Cut 'Em Off at the Past"") of a fictional 1940s radio drama, ""Nick Danger, Third Eye"", broadcast on December 7, 1941. Nick Danger (Phil Austin) is a '40s-style hardboiled private investigator in the Raymond Chandler mold. In live performances and photographs, he wears the stereotypical fedora and trench coat. He has the obligatory nemesis on the police force, Lieutenant Bradshaw (Bergman), who questions Danger's every move. Bradshaw specifically blames Danger for a botched pederasty arrest. His ""mark"""
"Radio 4, although a TV play was broadcast by Thames in 1981. ""Blue Pacific Island (1985)"", with Juliet Stevenson and Anthony Bate, was followed by the trilogy ""A Man Alone"" in 1986, the first play of which won him a Giles Cooper Award. ""King Priam"", a one-hour account of the Trojan War, written as a series of interconnected monologues by the leading participants, in response to a blind-date commission, and starring Paul Scofield, was broadcast in 1987. It led – though with many false starts and delays – to 1998's four-and-a-half-hour, three-play sequence, ""Troy"", for BBC Radio 3, which won"
"""Three Blind Mice and Other Stories"". When she wrote the play, Christie gave the rights to her grandson Mathew Prichard as a birthday present. In the United Kingdom, only one production of the play in addition to the West End production can be performed annually, and under the contract terms of the play, no film adaptation can be produced until the West End production has been closed for at least six months. The play had to be renamed at the insistence of Emile Littler who had produced a play called ""Three Blind Mice"" in the West End before the Second"
"plays were broadcast on BBC Radio, performed by the Cardiff Station Repertory Company as the third episode of a series of programs showcasing Shakespeare's plays, entitled ""Shakespeare Night"". In 1947, BBC Third Programme aired a one-hundred-and-fifty-minute adaptation of the trilogy as part of their ""Shakespeare's Historical Plays"" series, a six-part adaptation of the eight sequential history plays, with linked casting. Adapted by Maurice Roy Ridley, ""King Henry VI"" starred John Bryon as Henry, Gladys Young as Margaret, Richard Williams as York and Baliol Holloway as Gloucester. In 1952, Third Programme aired an adaptation of the tetralogy by Peter Watts and"
"at the 3LD Art and Technology Center in Manhattan. A radio drama adaptation of Dick's short story ""Mr. Spaceship"" was aired by the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yleisradio) in 1996 under the name ""Menolippu Paratiisiin"". Radio dramatizations of Dick's short stories ""Colony"" and ""The Defenders"" were aired by NBC in 1956 as part of the series ""X Minus One"". In January 2006, a ""The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"" (English for ""Trzy stygmaty Palmera Eldritcha"") theatre adaptation premiered in Stary Teatr in Cracov, with an extensive use of lights and laser choreography. In June 2014 the BBC broadcast a two part"
"directed by Peter Barber-Fleming as part of the ITV series ""Agatha Christie's Poirot"" in 1993, starring David Suchet. The short story was later expanded by Christie into the 1945 full-length novel ""Sparkling Cyanide"". The Yellow Iris (radio drama) The Yellow Iris is a radio play written by Agatha Christie and broadcast on the BBC National Programme on Tuesday 2 November 1937 at 8.00pm. The one-hour program was broadcast again two days later, this time on the BBC Regional Programme at 9.00pm. The script was based on the short story, ""Yellow Iris"", which had been published in issue 559 of the"
"and the pilot for the short lived series ""Mrs. G Goes To College"" (1961). The box set is available from UCLA. The UCLA archive also holds 130 transcription discs of the radio series, which it has released on YouTube. The Goldbergs (broadcast series) The Goldbergs is a comedy-drama broadcast from 1929 to 1946 on American radio, and from 1949 to 1956 on American television. It was adapted into a 1948 play, ""Me and Molly""; a 1950 film ""The Goldbergs"", and a 1973 Broadway musical, ""Molly"". The program was devised by writer-actress Gertrude Berg in 1928 and sold to the NBC"
"to stop the cancerous spread / And it made me think of Leda and The Swan / and gold being made from lead"" Sylvia Plath alludes to the myth in her radio play ""Three Women"" written for the BBC in 1962. The play features the voices of three women. The first is a married woman who keeps her baby. The second is a secretary who suffers a miscarriage. The third voice, a girl who is pregnant and leaves her baby, mentions ""the great swan, with its terrible look,/ Coming at me,"" insinuating that the girl was raped. The play is"
"short story not published in the UK. For first publications in the UK, see the applicable UK collections referenced above. Three Blind Mice and Other Stories Three Blind Mice and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1950. The first edition retailed at $2.50. The later collections ""The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding"" (1960), ""Poirot's Early Cases"" (1974), ""Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories"" (1979), and ""Problem at Pollensa Bay"" (1992) reprint between them all the stories in this collection except the"
"Darkside"" in 1987 entitled “The Enormous Radio”. It was directed by Bill Travis and it aired on May 17, 1987. The Enormous Radio was adapted into an episode of the ""CBS Radio Workshop"" on May 11, 1956. The story was dramatized by Gregory Evans on the BBC World Service in the series City Plays, produced and directed by Gordon House. It aired in 1991. The Enormous Radio ""The Enormous Radio"" is a short story written by American author John Cheever in 1947. It first appeared in the May 17, 1947 issue of ""The New Yorker"", and was later collected in"
"The series is the direct descendant of two old-time radio dramatic anthologies sponsored previously by Hallmark: ""Radio Reader's Digest"", adapting stories from the popular magazine (though the magazine never sponsored the show); and, its successor, ""Hallmark Playhouse"", which premiered on CBS in 1948. ""The Hallmark Playhouse"" changed to more serious literature from all genres. ""Hallmark Television Playhouse"" debuted on December 24, 1951 on NBC television network first opera written specifically for television, ""Amahl and the Night Visitors"" featuring the ballet dancer Nicholas Magallanes. ""Playhouse"" was hosted by Sarah Churchill and was a weekly half hour. In 1953, the series was"
"Blue Remembered Hills Blue Remembered Hills is a British television play by Dennis Potter, originally broadcast on 30 January 1979 as part of the BBC's ""Play for Today"" series. The play concerns a group of seven-year-olds playing in the Forest of Dean one summer afternoon in 1943. It ends abruptly when the character Donald is burnt to death partly as a result of the other children's actions. Perhaps the most striking feature of the play is that, although the characters are children, they are played by adult actors. Potter first used this device in ""Stand Up, Nigel Barton"" (1965) and"
"in the West End of London for almost a year. In 1968, he took out a long lease on London's St Martin's Theatre, in West Street near Charing Cross Road. Saunders' most notable production was ""The Mousetrap"", adapted for the stage by Christie, from her short story ""Three Blind Mice"". It began its run at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End on 25 November 1952, switched once in 1974 to St Martin's Theatre next door, and continues there to this day, making it the longest unbroken sequence of performances in world theatre history. After relinquishing his direct involvement in"
"being on Abbey stage for 9 performances. Belfast's Lyric Theatre revived it in September 1963 and the BBC Northern Ireland Home Service and Radio Éireann both aired it in 1963. Although Friel later withdrew ""The Blind Mice"" (1963), it was by far his most successful play of his very early period, playing for 6 weeks at Dublin's Eblana Theatre, revived by the Lyric, and broadcast by Radio Éireann and the BBC Home Service almost ten times by 1967. Friel had a short stint as ""observer"" at Tyrone Guthrie's theater in early-1960s Minneapolis; he remarked on it as ""enabling"" in that"
"as part of the ""Harold Pinter Tribute"" on BBC Radio 3's ""Drama on 3"", on 15 February 2009. Moonlight (play) Moonlight is a play written by Harold Pinter, which premiered at the Almeida Theatre, in London, in September 1993. THREE MAIN PLAYING AREAS: Andy, who is on his deathbed, rehashes his youth, loves, lusts, and betrayals with his wife, [Bel], while simultaneously his two sons [Fred and Jake] – clinical, conspiratorial, the bloodless, intellectual offspring of a hearty anti-intellectual – sit in the shadows, speaking enigmatically and cyclically, stepping around and around the fact of their estrangement from their father,"
"people who live inside a department store, was later adapted to TV as a Stephen Sondheim musical starring Anthony Perkins. William Conrad, Harry Bartell and Elliott Reid were heard in the chilling ""Three Skeleton Key"" (broadcast on 15 November 1949), the tale of three men trapped in an isolated lighthouse by thousands of rats; the half-hour was adapted from an ""Esquire"" short story by the French writer George Toudouze and later remade for the March 17, 1950 broadcast starring Vincent Price, Harry Bartell and Jeff Corey and again for the August 9, 1953 broadcast starring Paul Frees, Ben Wright and"