''Ann and Harold'' was the first ever British

television serial In television and radio programming, a serial is a show that has a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode-by-episode fashion. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire television seasons or even the complete run of t ...

. The program, written by Louis Goodrich, ran on

BBC television BBC Television is a service of the BBC. The corporation has operated a Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television service in the United Kingdom, under the terms of a royal charter, since 1 January 1927. It p ...

for a total of five 20-minute episodes in July and August 1938.Ann and Harold
IMDB. Retrieved 19 April 2014. It starred

Ann Todd Dorothy Ann Todd (24 January 1907 – 6 May 1993) was an English film, television and stage actress who achieved international fame when she starred in '' The Seventh Veil'' (1945). From 1949 to 1957 she was married to David Lean who directed ...

and William Hutchison in the "story of a London society couple's romance, from their meeting to their grand society wedding." No footage of the show survives, as it was aired live before any means of recording television programs existed. Two photographs exist as a visual record of the production.

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