Armchair Theatre: The Chocolate Tree

In 2017, Forgotten Television Drama launched a series of DVDs in conjunction with the DVD distributor Network. Following the untimely death of Network’s Managing Director Tim Beddows and the subsequent closure of the company, we are now making available all the viewing notes that accompanied our releases. The Chocolate Tree (Armchair Theatre, ABC, 27 October 1963). Written by Andrew Sinclair, produced by Leonard White and directed by Alan Cooke. The Chocolate Tree was Andrew Sinclair’s first television play, written while he was on a research fellowship at Harvard. Sinclair (1935-2019) based his 1959 novel, The Breaking of Bumbo, on his National Service experience with the Coldstream Guards and he later wrote and directed the 1970 film version. He also directed the acclaimed film version of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood (1972), but is better known as a novelist and writer of biographies on Che Guevara, Dylan Thomas, Jack London, John Ford and Francis Bacon. He wrote one more Armchair…

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