ITV Television Playhouse Shadow and Substance (Season 5, Episode 14)
TV Episode | 49 min | Drama

ITV Television Playhouse

Shadow and Substance (Season 5, Episode 14)

TV Episode | 49 min | Drama

Devout servant Brigid is torn by her affections for liberal local schoolmaster O'Flingsley, and The Canon, in whose Parochial House she is employed. but the two men have a bitter ongoing feud which culminates in a tragic outcome.

Director

Stuart Latham

Writers

Paul Vincent Carroll (play) | Thomas Clarke (adaptation)

Production Designer

Stanley Mills

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Edit Released

Updated Dec 4, 1959

Release date

Dec 4, 1959 (United Kingdom)

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
Tony Bronte Father Corr Father Corr See fewer	Martin Chuzzlewit (1964)
Maureen Delaney Jemima Cooney (as Maureen Delany) Jemima Cooney (as Maureen Delany) See fewer	The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
Shay Gorman Father Kirwan Father Kirwan See fewer	Island of Terror (1966)
Harry Hutchinson Martin Mullahone Martin Mullahone See fewer	Chamber of Horrors (1940)
Mollie Maureen Rosie Mullahone Rosie Mullahone See fewer	The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Olive McFarland Brigid Brigid See fewer	World Theatre (1959)
Robert Mooney Francis Francis See fewer	Great Expectations (1959)
Denis O'Dea Very Rev. Thomas Canon Skerritt Very Rev. Thomas Canon Skerritt See fewer	The Fallen Idol (1948)
Patrick Troughton Dermot Francis O'Flingsley Dermot Francis O'Flingsley See fewer	The Omen (1976)