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This is very difficult to watch. Patriarch gets shit faced, goes home, eats, falls asleep, sobers up and goes out again. Family more critical of each other than of themselves. Husband and wife drifted apart. So this guy hooks up to be happy again and leaves his family in ruins. Very depressing and there's no happy ending.

W H Smith is a shadow of its former self.

Uncle Frank (American) got a joke late and laughed in a quiet bit. Victor stopped came to the front of the stage bowed and said "thank you sir" ❤❤

What a really enjoyable film, 🎥 interesting from💯 beginning to end, actors 🎭 were amazing ,loved the storyline 🥰

Thanks

Wonder if Audrey would have felt the same for Selwyn Froggitt

Absolutely brilliant .

That really depressed me

Used to watch university challenge on a sunday hated it as i was with my nan and we wouldnt hav dinner until it finished, the smell of the meat cooking. When it finished she would get up and put veg on, timed to the minute of my grandfather walking down path from sunday pub. They were the days when you got hungry and had to wait, something children know nothing about today. Ooo i sound so old 🤣

she's a great grind.😂 70s slang much better than todays..

You old highbrow you.

Greengrass ,younger..

this is soooooo good

I remember watching this at the time.

This one is my fav

I saw him in 1973. In college. wow. i'm in Oklahoma, probably the one one there who knew classic

No mention of the Jewish support for the club, or the fans name for themselves and the club, "The Yids". Woke-washing social history.

David Rudkin also wrote the cult movie Penda's Fen.

Roshan Seth as - not a real Bank Manager at all, of course! "Who calls himself "The Prince of Light"??! Brilliant twist to a very enjoyable film.

I have to say Bill Maynard played a great part.

Great stuff this one ! Not many famous faces but well acted never the less.

Just seen this for the first time. So engaging, brilliantly acted and cast. Spellbinding. And then, as the closing credits began, I saw that Colin Welland had written it. At that point, it all made sense. Just majestic. Real and meaningful. My god, English television was once untouchable.

Wonderful play! I didn't realise Colin Welland wrote as well as acted. Great to see Bill Maynard in a straight role - I think I've only ever seen him as comedy later in his life. Apart from the wonderful writing, I'm so enjoying plays from the 70s on UA-cam - spot the actor/actress early in their career! As others are saying here, where did this go? I grew up in the 70s but was just a bit too young to be watching Play for Today, but was aware of it. Thank goodness for UA-cam and the people involved in uploading these gems. Thank you.

It’s Vera from Coronation Street as a redhead! I could tell that voice anywhere

WOW

Joe was my friend, mentor and mentor. He told me he got the idea of combining "All Blues" and "Every Day I Have The Blues" in the shower. When he finished his shower, he called Miles Davis and told him. Miles said it was a great idea and Joe frequently performed it from then on. (I perform it the same way myself and have been doing so since 1996).

Bill Maynard, brilliant!

What a great time with Thomas was hilarious! It so funny; I'm still laughing today 😂😂😂😂❤

the child wants to join the dance...

Colin Welland later adapted the play to an American landscape for the film Twice In A Lifetime. He was doing research in early 1982 in Washington state and got to know the locals at their local bar. Every time he entered the bar they would say "Hang onto you wallets, the British are coming". This phrase stuck with him and he used the last part of it when he won his Oscar a few weeks later for Chariots Of Fire.

50? People looked older then didnt they? Its the way of life and the way they dressed.

Sandra is such a good actor. Not scared to voice her opinion.

I was 12 when this was aired.am now 64

So glad I stumbled upon this channel 😊 A great play (thanks for the upload, Ian) Such nostalgia 🥹

Lovely waltz at 13:47

Thomas playing so badly, what a great gag.

Anderson despised Richard Attenborough's simple, warm-hearted, liberal movies. He particularly loathed the 'nursery history' of 'Gandhi', whose international success, together with Puttnam's 'Chariots of Fire', had sparked the umpteenth 'revival' of the UK industry. (Attenborough was another contributor to this short TV series.) While big budgets were being expended on 'Revolution' and 'Honky Tonk Freeway', all Anderson could manage to produce was the New England chamber piece, 'The Whales of August'. His spasmodically funny but ponderous and bilious satire, 'Britannia Hospital', had lain an egg in 1982, seeming out of sorts with the spirit of Thatcher's Britain basking in the Falklands War. Anderson had become a curmudgeonly naysayer, jeering from the sidelines. He would never make another feature film on his home turf.

I tried, but the only impact was that it made my anal sphincter twitch. Perhaps I’m missing the point and that is the desired emotional response.

Oldham Tinkers; great, wot!

'I was glued to my seat during the very long sequence in which absolutely sod all happens' - Gavin Gumph, Daily Mail.

When he plays with no comedy, it is astonishing. Love this guy!

Brilliant!

cool as cfuk

Holly smoke!😊

Legend

Very strong performance. May God have mercy on us all

"I don't know how to love except at the beginning and at the end when it is too late." Ooooh I wonder if that is a dig at his friend Alan Bates

The redhead is Vera Duckworth from the Street. Marjorie Yates (Audrey) always reminded me of Glenda Jackson. What a great episode from this groundbreaking series.

Love his humour, love his music!

Genius