The White Chateau was first broadcast on sound in 1925, and was specially written for radio by Reginald Berkeley. It was produced on the London stage in 1927 and this television version marked its second translation into a new medium. The 90-minute broadcast starred Antionette Cellier and Andrew Osborn, with A R Whatmore, Edward Lexy, Harold Scott, William Hutchinson, Bernard Miles, George Woodbridge, and Erick Chitty. The setting of a front-line trench was constructed in the studio but, for added effect, in the grounds of Alexandra Palace were two 6-inch howitzers and about thirty men of the Territorial Army.

Production was by Royston Morley, music from Sibeliu's Second Symphony.