Henry IV. Part I

Synopsis: Television version of the play staged for the Phoenix Theatre by Stuart Vaughan and directed for television by Worthington Miner. Donald Davis is King Henry.
Series: Play of the Week, The (Us)
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Television
Transmission details: 26 Sep 1960 at 20:30 (Channel: PBS)
Duration: 120 mins

Notes: The UCLA Archive holds master preservation material only, no viewing copy (2008).
History: The same evening the Nixon/Kennedy debate was transmitted from 9:30 to 10:30pm. It is likely that at 9:30 most of the audience deserted Shakespeare in favour of watching this historic confrontation.
Reviews: Variety (28 September 1960).

Donald Davis	King Henry IV
Stephen Joyce	Prince Henry (Hal)
Eric Berry	Sir John Falstaff
Donald Madden	Henry Percy (Hotspur)
Gerry Jedd	Mistress Quickly
Albert Quinton	Owen Glendower
Dran Seitz	Lady Mortimer
J.D. Cannon	Poins
Jerry Hardin	Peto
Jock Livingston	Bardolph
John Heffernan	Francis, a Drawer
John Heffernan	Sir Richard Vernon
Nan Martin	Lady Percy
Nicholas Kepros	Lord John of Lancaster
Ray Reinhardt	Archibald, Earl of Douglas
Ted Van Griethuysen	Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March

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