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<jats:p>This article analyses tensions between medium specificity and intermediality in Beckett’s first original drama for television, <jats:italic>Eh Joe</jats:italic> (1966), which exploits features of the medium such as the spatiality of the studio, monochrome images and close-up. But its visual motifs also echo Beckett’s cinema debut, <jats:italic>Film</jats:italic> (1964), and uses of sound and voice from his radio plays. The public promotion of <jats:italic>Eh Joe</jats:italic> centred on its relationships with Beckett’s theatre plays, while <jats:italic>Eh Joe</jats:italic>’s first audiences adduced frames of reference from both theatre and television. <jats:italic>Eh Joe</jats:italic> works with the porosity of media boundaries and performatively renegotiates them.</jats:p>