Trial by Candlelight

{{Short description|1958 episode of Armchair Theatre}}

Trial by Candlellight is a 1958 British television play which aired as an episode of Armchair Theatre. It was directed by Wolf Rilla and written by John Kruse.{{cite news|newspaper=The Birmingham Post|date=21 June 1958|page=58|title=Tomorrow}} The play was a key work in the career of Janet Munro.{{cite news|newspaper=Manchester Evening News|date=21 June 1958|page=5|title=Play comes out of the can}}{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|date=6 January 2024|access-date=6 January 2024|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/girl-next-door-or-girl-gone-bad-the-janet-munro-story/|title=Girl-next-door or girl-gone-bad: The Janet Munro Story}}

The play was postponed because of star Freda Jackon's flu.{{cite newspaper|newspaper=Manchester Evening News|date=4 January 1958|page=5|title=Max North's telereview}}{{cite news|title=Tomorrow's programmes|newspaper=Coventry Evening Telegraph|date=4 January 1958|page=2}} It was recorded in October 1957 and shown in 1958. In the meantime Munro had been signed by Walt Disney.{{cite news|newspaper=Walsall Observer|date=20 June 1958|page=13|title=Change of programme on ITV}}

It was one of the ten most seen programs in Britain the week it broadcast.{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|url=https://archive.org/details/variety211-1958-07/page/n102/mode/1up?|title=Nielsen's Top 10 in Britain|date=9 July 1958|page=33}}

==Premise==

A young woman, Anne, is driven to suicide and a writer, Louis, investigates why.