BBC Sunday-Night Play:
The White Guard 1960
Director: Rudolph Cartier
Writers: Rodney Ackland (Translation),
Mikhail A. Bulgakov (based on his novel)
Rôle: Alexis Turbin
Synopsis: It is November 1918 and the scene is the city of Kiev in the Ukraine, lately garrisoned by the German Army of Occupation but now threatened by the approach of a large well-equipped army of Cossacks.
There's no ammunition and food is desperately short in the city. But still attempts are made to raise an army of citizens to repel the invaders. Describing the impact of the collapse of the Tsarist Empire on a family of officers, this play centres on Alexei Turbin, Colonel of the White Guard, responsible for defending Kiev, and on his beautiful sister Helena, deserted by her husband and in love with a young lieutenant, Leonid Schervinsky.
Comment: Marius had previously performed the role of Leonid Schervinsky in a stage production of the play in 1938 directed by Michel Saint-Denis. Michael Redgrave had played Turbin in that production alongside Peggy Ashcroft as Helena.
Broadcast: 31 January 1960 BBCTV
BBC Sunday-Night Play:
The Devil's General 1960
Director: Rudolph Cartier
Writers: Robert Gore Brown (Translation), Carl Zuckmayer (based on his play)
Rôle: Harras (General of the Luftwaffe)
Synopsis: General Harras, a hero of the First World War, finds himself increasingly at odds with the new Germany of Adolf Hitler.
Comment: This is the second time that Marius had performed in the rôle of General Harras for the BBC, the first being in 1955 to great acclaim.
Broadcast: 14 August 1960 BBCTV
BBC Sunday-Night Play:
A Call on Kuprin 1961
Director: John Jacobs
Writers: Anthony Steven, Maurice Edelman (based on his play)
Rôle:: Laye-Parker
Synopsis: After the manned satellite, the armed satellite. Kuprin, the Soviet rocket scientist, is working on a warhead for the Chelovyek. But Laye-Parker, M.P., and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent at the House of Commons, remember him at Cambridge before the war as an Anglophile married to an English woman. Can they, by a personal approach, persuade him to return to England?
Laye-Parker and Smith reach Moscow in their search for Kuprin. Laye-Parker is arrested by the M.V.D. on unspecified charges, and Smith, a reluctant partner in the enterprise, must carry on the search alone.
Broadcast: 18 June 1961 & 25 June 1961 BBCTV
BBC Sunday-Night Play:
The Money Machine 1962
Director: Vivian A. Daniels
Writer: Richard Thomas
Rôle: John Lock
Synopsis: Alastair Moncrieff designs a banknote counter and he takes it to Olagem Ltd. Director John Lock realises that the counter can make a fortune, and determines that the fortune shall go to Olagem.
Broadcast: 3 June 1962 BBCTV
Availability: None of the four plays that Marius did for the Sunday-Night Play series are believed to still exist.
Drama '61: The Cruel Day 1961
Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: Reginald Rose
Rôle: The Captain
Synopsis: A French Army Captain's transfer to a lonely outpost in Algeria may have appeared merely a routine posting to him. But dealing with the rebels forces him to face a problem he has shirked all his life: it forces him to face himself.
Broadcast: 19 March 1961 ATV
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Drama '62: Room for Justice 1962
Director: Peter Sasdy
Writer: Jeremy Paul
Rôle: Mervyn Pemberton
Synopsis: Marius Goring is Mervyn Pemberton, a brilliant divorce barrister and Zena Walker is his wife Belinda. The meeting of two old friends, Belinda (Zena Walker) and Daniel, her ex-boyfriend (Dinsdale Landen), at a seaside hotel, leads to a crisis.
Broadcast: 30 December 1962 ATV
Availability: It is unknown if copies still exist for either of the plays Marius did for Drama 61-67.
