Plot[edit]

Insurance agent Frederick Dyson owns a house in London with his wife. Among the lodgers is a misery elderly woman, Miss Lummus, who hoards her money in the house. When she is murdered, Dyson is charged with the crime.

1959 British television version[edit]

A version aired 3 March 1959 as part of British television series ITV Play of the Week. The adaptation was by John McKeller. This version is believed to be lost.[1]

A Dead Secret

William Sterling

Australia

English

75 mins

21 May 1959 (1959-05-21) (Melbourne, live)[2][3]

24 June 1959 (1959-06-24) (Sydney, taped)

Bruce Archer as Alfie, Miss Lummus' adoptive son

as Frederick Dyson

Kenneth Goodlet

Elizabeth Wing as Mrs Dyson

Moira Carlicion as Miss Lummus

Bettina Kauffman

Edward Howell

Campbell Copelin

Lewis Tegart

Carol Armstrong

1963 Australia radio version[edit]

A radio version aired 15 December 1963 on Melbourne Australia radio station LO.[8]

A Dead Secret

Alan Burke

Ron Haddrick

Australia

English

60 mins

8 May 1963 (1963-05-08) (Sydney)

18 July 1963 (1963-07-18) (Melbourne)[9]

as Frederick Dyson

Ron Haddrick

Marion Johns as Mrs Dyson

as dead woman

Lyndall Barbour

as Henrietta Spicer

Thelma Scott

as Arthur Lovecraft QC

Walter Sullivan

Tom Farley as Dyson's Father

List of live television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1950s)

at IMDb

A Dead Secret 1959 ITV version

at IMDb

A Dead Secret 1959 ABC version

at IMDb

A Dead Secret 1963 ABC version

at National Archives of Australia

Photographs of 1959 TV production