NET Playhouse; 88; Thirteen Against Fate. Part 2: Trapped

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Series
NET Playhouse
Episode Number
88
Episode
Thirteen Against Fate. Part 2: Trapped
Producing Organization
British Broadcasting Corporation
Contributing Organization
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/512-8c9r20sp21
NOLA Code
THAF
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Description
Episode Description
Life for Louis Bert has been a long series of minor ups and sordid downs a precarious existence maintained on the edge of the criminal underworld by wit and charm. At the moment, however, everything seems to be set for a run of good living. He has won the heart of middle-aged Constance who has enough money to keep him, and he has even managed to persuade her to extend her patronage to his sister," Loulou who, in fact is a prostitute he stole from the leader of a gang he helped in a post-office raid. Louis has found comfort and security, and sees no reason why he should not be able to continue in his new life. But the past has been spent too recklessly, and soon destroys the good life in Constance's apartment in Nice. At a birthday party given for Constance by an old lover, Loulou notices some of the gang watching. Louis also sees a detective who has been showing an interest in him since the post-office robbery, and he decides that the time has come to disappear for a while. That night, in an attempt to silence him, the gang raids Constance's apartment. And when Louis returns two days later, he finds the place a shambles, with Constance lying on the bed with her throat cut. Knowing that suspicion will certainly center on him, Louis panics, drags the body into the bathroom, and goes to work on it with a knife. Finally he tidies the apartment and then sets off to dispose of two heavy suitcases in the harbor. Two weeks later, Louis is arrested and charged with theft, forgery and murder. Although nobody has been found, he is sent to trial. During the proceeding no one produces any evidence in his favor. The record of his misspent life works against him and he is finally sentenced to twenty years penal servitude. Film sequences were done on location in Nice, France. NET PLAYHOUSE: "Thirteen Against Fate Trapped" is a National Educational Television presentation, produced for the British Broadcasting Corporation by Irene Shubik. The story was dramatized by Julia Jones. Title music composed and conducted by Tony Russell, violin played by Desmond Bradley. Producer for NET is Kay Chessid. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Series Description
Thirteen Against Fate is a series of thirteen hour-long episodes based on the novels of Georges Simenon. Noted for the sound psychology of his characters, Simenon's stories deal with many nationalities and are set in numerous European cities and villages. There are sequences filmed in these locations integrated into the episodes. In each of the novels chosen for this series, Fate plays a leading role in the development of the story and the characters. These aired as episodes 88-100 of NET Playhouse. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Created Date
1968-00-00
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Drama
Topics
Performing Arts
Media type
Moving Image
Credits
Actor: Lewis, Ronald
Actor: Buckley, Keith
Actor: Wheeler, Lionel
Actor: Cheshire, Geoffrey
Actor: Mane, Joan
Actor: Evans, Hugh
Actor: Challenor, Carla
Actor: Webster, Mary
Actor: Keats, Viola
Actor: Coleridge, Sylvia
Actor: Bacon, Gladys
Actor: Barrard, John
Actor: Martin, Derek
Actor: Lees, Michael
Actor: Evans, Tenniel
Actor: Eccles, Donald
Adapter: Jones, Julia
Composer: Russell, Tony
Conductor: Russell, Tony
Designer: Oman, Julia Trevelyan
Director: Spenton-Foster, George
Performer: Bradley, Desmond
Producer: Chessid, Kay
Producer: Shubik, Irene
Producing Organization: British Broadcasting Corporation
Writer: Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Library of Congress
Identifier: 1654775-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 1 inch videotape: SMPTE Type C
Generation: Master
Color: B&W
Library of Congress
Identifier: 1654775-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
Color: B&W
Library of Congress
Identifier: 1654775-3 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: U-matic
Generation: Master
Color: B&W
Library of Congress
Identifier: 1654775-4 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Master
Library of Congress
Identifier: 1654775-5 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Copy: Access
Library of Congress
Identifier: 1654775-6 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Copy: Access
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Citations
Chicago: “NET Playhouse; 88; Thirteen Against Fate. Part 2: Trapped,” 1968-00-00, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 2, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-8c9r20sp21.
MLA: “NET Playhouse; 88; Thirteen Against Fate. Part 2: Trapped.” 1968-00-00. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 2, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-8c9r20sp21>.
APA: NET Playhouse; 88; Thirteen Against Fate. Part 2: Trapped. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-8c9r20sp21