Drama (ITV): The Dread Command
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyAssociated-Rediffusion
started21st Sep
1961
ended1st Dec
1961
last rpt27th Nov
1963
3 school years
episodes10
duration25 mins
age rangeAge 13-16
languageenIn English
The Dread Command is a unit of the ITV schools TV series Drama (ITV) from the 1960s, covering Drama for secondary school pupils.
- covering Shakespeare's Hamlet
- five documentary programmes including excerpts starring William Russell as Hamlet, Mark Dignam as Claudius and Margaretta Scott as Gertrude
- followed by a five-part (abridged) production of the play starring Barry Foster as Hamlet, Sidney Tafler as Claudius and Patricia Jessel as Gertrude
- broadcast in autumn 1961 and again in autumn 1963
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