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unusual facts about television play



1984 in Northern Ireland

Graham Reid's play Remembrance is first produced at the Lyric Theatre (Belfast), and his television play A Coming to Terms for Billy, last in the trilogy of "Billy plays", is shown in BBC1's Play for Today series, starring Kenneth Branagh.

Battle of Mount Tumbledown

The battle was depicted in the BBC television play Tumbledown, about the experiences of Robert Lawrence before, during and after the war.

Day To Remember

Day To Remember is a British Christmas television play first transmitted 9.45pm Sunday 21 December 1986 on Channel 4 from Television South Production in association with the Theatre of Comedy Entertainment.


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A Voyage Round My Father

It then became a television play with Ian Richardson playing Mortimer, Tim Good as the young Mortimer while Mark Dignam played his blind barrister father.

Allan Gurganus

It was made into a CBS television play, with Cicely Tyson winning one of its four Emmy Awards as best supporting actress in the role of the freed slave Castalia.

Bernd Scholz

Television play after the novella „Der silberne Krug“ (Jug of Silver) by Truman Capote.

Chronicle Live

Haas Pavilion (UC Berkeley) - Filmed prior to the men's basketball game between Cal and Oregon, the television play-by-play being handled by Greg Papa.

Daron Sutton

Prior to moving to Arizona, he served for five years as the television voice of the Milwaukee Brewers, and prior to coming to Milwaukee in 2002, he was one of the radio voices of the then-Anaheim Angels, working alongside current Detroit Tigers television play-by-play broadcaster Mario Impemba.

Eye of the Gorgon

The idea of "residual haunting" is also known as the "Stone Tape theory", named after the 1972 BBC television play The Stone Tape by Nigel Kneale, which popularised the theory.

Hope Hines

Next he moved on to a job in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was the television play-by-play announcer for the Baltimore Colts, and anchorman for WMAR-TV.

For a time, Hines worked for WWL-TV in New Orleans, and served as the television play-by-play announcer for the New Orleans Saints.

Marcus Lloyd

The following year he won BBC Television's Double Exposure screenwriting award for his 60 minute television play, A Relative Stranger, which was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1996 starring Siobhan Redmond (Alison Fraiman), Suzanna Hamilton (Jenny Bell), Ioan Gruffudd (Nigel Fraiman) and Jason Isaacs (Peter Fraiman).

Peter Whitbread

He concentrated mostly on writing for the theatre, and in 1974 his drama Mr Axelford’s Angel won the Emmy Award for Best Television Play.

Terror in the Sky

Terror in the Sky is a low budget 1971 television movie remake of 1957's Zero Hour!, which itself was based on the 1956 television play Flight into Danger.

Terry Wiles

Then aged 17, Wiles played himself in a 1979 BBC television Play of the Week drama entitled On Giant's Shoulders, starring Bryan Pringle as Leonard Wiles and Judi Dench, who was nominated for a BAFTA for her role as Hazel Wiles.

The After-Dinner Joke

The After-Dinner Joke is a television play in the epic form written by the English playwright Caryl Churchill for the BBC1 Play for Today series which was broadcast on 14 February 1978.

Westlake, Ohio

Michael Reghi, former television play-by-play announcer for the Cleveland Cavaliers