Kaleidoscope, the classic TV organisation, is holding a day event on the Television Play at the Midlands Art Centre (MAC) in Birmingham on Saturday 7 September 2024, 10.00-5.30pm.
The event will include screenings of plays made for Armchair Theatre, Saturday Night Theatre, Thirty Minute Theatre and Television Theatre From The Midlands, and there will be a screening of The Mystery of Cader Ifan (1967), a rare Conan Doyle adaptation featuring Charlotte Rampling, plus the premiere of the recently recovered audio for Sherlock Holmes: The Second Stain (1968) featuring Peter Cushing.
The morning session will include a screening of Them Down There (1968), a play by the Granada writer John Finch, whose memoirs were published by Kaleidoscope in 2023, and a Q&A with Steve Finch, the writer’s eldest son who witnessed the filming of the play at the family’s isolated Yorkshire farmhouse.
There will also be a focus on Philip Saville, one of British television’s most creative directors, whose memoirs were published by Kaleidoscope in 2019. Saville’s ‘banned’ 1964 Armchair Theatre play The Bandstand will be screened and there will be a Q&A with Nina Saville, who acted in several of her husband’s productions.
The two Conan Doyle screenings will be preceded by author Mark Jones talking about his book Conan Doyle: Mystery and Adventure, published by Kaleidoscope in 2023, about the ‘lost’ BBC series Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of which The Mystery of Cader Ifan is the only surviving episode.
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Further Information about the event and a link for booking can be found on the MAC website: