The Happiest Days of Your Life (play)

The play was first seen on BBC Television in 1947, and then, after a one-night try-out in the West End later that year, it opened at the Apollo Theatre in March 1948, running for more than 600 performances.

[7] After early skirmishing and mutual disdain the Headmaster of Hilary Hall, Godfrey Pond, and the Principal of St Swithins, Miss Whitchurch, try to reach an accommodation to cope with the ensuing problems.

Miss Whitchurch establishes an early advantage by getting the men to stop smoking on the premises and to have the dormitories reserved for the girls, with the boys reduced to sleeping in the carpentry room.

[12] It was revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre in 1984, with a cast headed by Peggy Mount as Miss Whitchurch and John Cater as Pond, with Paul Greenwood as Dick Tassell and Richard O'Callaghan as Billings.

Other cast members included Digby Wolfe (Tassell), Alan Wheatley (Billings) and Isabel Dean (Joyce Harper).

[15] Radio adaptations were made in 1952 with Winifred Oughton and Cecil Trouncer as Miss Whitchurch and Pond, 1965 with Marjorie Westbury and Carleton Hobbs, and in 1979 with Roger Hammond and Margot Boyd.