TELEVISION PLAYS
SIR,—John araine rightly takes Granada to task for not•naming in the TV Times the author of No Haunt for a Gentleman. May we promise to be more care- ful in future? The original author was, in fact, Freddie Allwood. A number of other hands were concerned in the final screenplay.
Mr. Braine liked No Haunt for a Gentleman 'be- cause it was a television play and used some of the special resources of the medium.' It may make our offence seem slightly less heinous if we explain that it wasn't a television play at all. It was a six-year-old second-feature film.
Very seriously, Granada considers writers enor- mously important—particularly those who are will- ing to work for television, which is not by a long chalk the same thing as film. Granada has appointed a writer (myself) to take charge of all its play pro- grammes. And elsewhere in your magazine Granada announces a television play contest, which we hope will bring forward new and talented writers who will really use the special resources of the medium.— Yours faithfully, PHILIP MACKIE
Granada TV Network Limited, 23-24 Warwick Street, WI
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