The Play's the Thing (TV series)

The Play's the Thing was a Canadian theatrical drama television series which aired on CBC Television in 1974.

The Play's the Thing
Genre	drama
Presented by	Gordon Pinsent
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	11
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Original release
Network	CBC Television
Release	17 January (1974-01-17) – 28 March 1974 (1974-03-28)

Premise

This anthology series was based on Canadian-written plays, especially from new playwrights.

Scheduling

This hour-long series was broadcast Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 17 January to 28 March 1974 as follows:

Date	Title	Writer	Director	Comments
17 January 1974	"How I met My Husband"	Alice Munro	Herb Roland
24 January 1974	"The Bells of Hell"	Mordecai Richler	George Jonas
31 January 1974	"And then Mr. Jones"	Morley Callaghan	Paddy Sampson
7 February 1974	"Friends and Relations"	Hugh Hood	Rudi Dorn
14 February 1974	"Brothers in the Black Art"	Robertson Davies	Mario Prizek
21 February 1974	"The Man from Inner Space"	Eric Nicol	Paddy Sampson
28 February 1974	"The Servant Girl"	Margaret Atwood	George Jonas
7 March 1974	"Roundelay"	Pierre Berton	Rudi Dorn
14 March 1974	"The Roncarelli Affair"	Mavor Moore	George McCowan	Dramatic portrayal of the Roncarelli v. Duplessis case, adapted from the writings of F. R. Scott who was part of Roncarelli's legal team
21 March 1974	"Back to Beulah"	W. O. Mitchell	Eric Till
28 March 1974	"The Executioners"	Farley Mowat and Len Peterson	Rudi Dorn	Featured Inuit actors in a story which concerns a 1964 murder trial, documented by Farley Mowat for Maclean's magazine.

Further reading

• Gifford, Tony, ed. (1976). The Play's The Thing: Four Original Television Dramas. Toronto: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-7705-1291-0.

External links

• Allan, Blaine (1996). "The Play's the Thing". Queen's University. Archived from the original on 17 June 2010. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
• The Play's the Thing at IMDb