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mariocki · 5 months

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Play for Today: Sunset Across the Bay (BBC, 1975)

"It's one of them buses with a lavatory. Are you going to go?"

"I don't want to go."

"I do."

"Well go then."

"I don't want everybody to know I'm going."

"She's been in twice already. She were in there before we got to Stanningley. Anyway, what does it matter what folk think? We're retired now."

#play for today #sunset across the bay #1975 #single play #alan bennett #stephen frears #gabrielle daye #harry markham #bob peck #paul shane #betty alberge #albert modley #bernard wrigley #madge hindle #patricia mason #norah pollitt #elizabeth dawn #peter wallis #clifford kershaw #christine buckley #gwen harris #a typically muted Bennett piece‚ reuniting him with director Frears who had helmed his first tv play (and would go on to produce some of #his best work later in the decade with the Six Plays strand). an elderly couple retire and move from Leeds to the Morecambe seaside; theres #not much more to this play‚ but it still packs an emotional wallop as our couple discover that their twilight years aren't quite as rosy as #they'd imagined them to be. it's a mature‚ thoughtful piece‚ often underplaying the moment rather than over egging it #Bennett certainly wrote funnier pieces‚ and better ones too‚ but for sheer bittersweet reality and quiet sad humanity this is hard to fault #as ever the cast includes multiple familiar faces that had collaborated with the writer before and would again; most had also worked on #Coronation Street at one time or another. perhaps the well of Northern character actors only ran so deep at this point #full of Bennett's skillful observation of the day to day idiosyncrasies of common working (or retired as it were) folk. this was repeated #on bbc4 recently and should still be up on iplayer for anyone with access; it's well worth it‚ tho not the playwright's warmest work

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kwebtv · 9 months

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Nearest and Dearest - ITV - August 15, 1968 - February 7, 1973

Sitcom (45 Episodes)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Stars:

Hylda Baker as Nellie Pledge

Jimmy Jewel as Eli Pledge

Madge Hindle as Lillie Tattersall

Edward Malin as Walter Tattersall

Joe Gladwin as Stan Hardman

#Nearest and Dearest #TV #ITV #Sitcom #1960's #1970's #Hylda Baker #Jimmy Jewel #Madge Hindle #Edward Malin #Joe Gladwin

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alonyssima · 2 years

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Me naming all the side characters from Nyssa's episodes.

The Denis Carey Keeper (which I call Keeper Hellas), Consul\Keeper-Nominate Tremas of Traken, Consul\Keeper Kassia of Traken, Consul Seron of Traken, Consul Katura of Traken, Consul\Keeper Luvic of Traken, and Proctor Neman of Traken.

Vanessa Verney, two human policemen, the Monitor of Logopolis, and two human men working at the Pharos Project. And the Watcher on a technicality.

Shardovan of Castrovalva, Mergrave of Castrovalva, and the little "mini-Liz" girl.

Urbankan Monarch, Urbankan ministers of Persuasion and Enlightenment, Kurkutji, Lin Futu, Princess Villagra of the Mayans, and Bigon.

(There's also Prof. Saunders, Prof. Hindle, Prof. Todd, Elder Panna of the Kinda, Elder Karuna of the Kinda, Aris of the Kinda, the Kinda Trickster, and the Jerry Judge Kinda. Oh and Dukkha and the other two visions. But Nyssa was'nt there to meet them.)

Richard Mace, Terileptil Leader, and other two Terileptils. Oh and a father with son and daughter at the very beginning.

Ann Talbot, Charles Cranleigh, George Cranleigh, Lady Madge Cranleigh, and Latoni.

That redhead bouffant elder lady, and a boy and a girl working for her.

A professor, two radio station workers, and two plane passengers.

Omega, Colin Frazer, Robin Stuart, a new Borusa incarnation, Chancellor Damonwhatever of Gallifrey, Chancellery Guard Maxilsomething of Gallifrey, and four other Time Lords.

Chela of Manussa, Ambril of Manussa, Dojien of Manussa, Queen Tanha of Manussa, Dugdale of Manussa, Prince Lon of Manussa.

TWO Brigadiers (which of them is the one episode character?), Mawdryn of someplanetperhapsTrionbutpropablynot, Hippo Ibbotson, the Black Guardian, a nurse from the school, two elderly versions of Nyssa and Tegan, two child versions of Nyssa and Tegan.

Kari, Olvir, Bor, Sigurd, Aegard or some other Scandinavian name, the Garm, and Olga.

#doctor who #classic who #side characters #im very invested in her era and expecially in kot and traken

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kwebtv · 3 months

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