#throwbackthursday: For the next few weeks, we are making our #throwback
themed.. we'll be digging through the collection to bring you some rare
and not so well known television appearances from the 1950's, 60's and
70's. Peter was very fortunate to have had an extremely successful
television career, long before his success on the big screen. To kick us
off with our FIRST , Peter Cushing Telly #throwbackthursday post . . .
. . . . a photograph from the BBC play 'UNCLE HARRY' which was broadcast on 8th May
1958 and starred Peter Cushing, Beryl Measor, Gerald James and the actress
in the pic, Mary Morris. The play was based in Wales and BBC Wales
produced this television adaptation of Thomas Job's stage play. The
story revolved around Harry Quincey (Uncle Harry played by Cushing) who
lives with his two rather quarrelsome sisters, who look after him, but
feels stifled. He thinks up a desperate plan to free himself.
TRIVIA: After it's run on Broadway in 1942, it was adapted shortly after
into a film starring George Saunders entitled, The Strange Affair of
Uncle Harry.... it's script and story bore little resemblance to the theatre production or tv play!
#throwbackthursday:
MORE Throw Back Cushing Telly: Peter Cushing as Martin Blueck, the owner of a suspicious pet shop in 'The
Silent Scream' an episode of the short lived TV series 'Hammer House Of
Horror' (1980) co-starring Brian Cox and directed by Alan Gibson who had
worked with Peter and for Hammer directing Dracula AD 1972 and The
Satanic Rites Of Dracula (1974) This was the final time that Peter
worked for Hammer films.
MORE Cushing Telly Throwbacks NEXT Thursday
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