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Television Playwright

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Country
United Kingdom
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How it feels

This is a British anthology series from the late 1950s that presented single original plays each episode. Most episodes are lost, with only three recordings remaining as rare artifacts of early TV drama.

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What happens

Television Playwright is a British television anthology series which aired from 1958 to 1959 on the BBC. Of the 29 episodes, only three are known to survive as early examples of British television drama. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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