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Harold Pinter at ITV

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 20th March 2019 by Billy Smart20th March 2019

Although primarily remembered as a theatrical writer, Harold Pinter’s early dramas reached a greater audience through Britain’s recently launched commercial television network, ITV. Between 1960 and 1966, ITV viewers enjoyed eight plays by Pinter, all broadcast in evening prime time, a full-length production of The Birthday Party (1960) followed by versions of The Dumb Waiter, The Room (both 1961) and The Caretaker (1966). In addition, ITV premiered four original Pinter … Continue reading →

Posted in Television | Tagged A Night Out, Armchair Theatre, Billy Smart, ITV, Night School, The Collection, The Lover

The Lover (Associated-Rediffusion for ITV, 1963): ‘tough stuff, well acted and cleverly directed’

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 30th May 2018 by Amanda Wrigley2nd July 2019

By the time The Lover was broadcast by ITV on 28 March 1963, Pinter was, as his biographer Michael Billington puts it, ‘in contemporary jargon, “hot” ’ (The Life and Work of Harold Pinter, Faber, 2007, p. 142). So, too, was its producer Joan Kemp-Welch (1906-1999), at least within the television industry. The dramatic narrative itself, based on the erotic role-play of a suburban middle-class married couple (played by Vivien … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Legacy, Production, Television | Tagged Associated-Rediffusion, ITV, Joan Kemp-Welch, The Lover
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