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Funny Farm (play)
"Funny Farm" is the 13th episode of fifth season of the British BBC anthology TV series ''Play for Today''. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 27 February 1975. "Funny Farm" was written by Roy Minton, directed by Alan Clarke, produced by Mark Shivas, and starred Tim Preece. Alan Wellbeck (Tim Preece) is a nurse in a mental hospital. His day-to-day struggles with personal feelings and troubled patients provide humour and pathos against the backdrop of a public institution. Cast * Tim Preece as Alan Welbeck * Allan Surtees as Arthur Rothwell * Bernard Severn as Ted Spinner * Michael Bilton as Sidney Charlton * Kenneth Scott as Jonathan * John Locke as Jeff West * Gordon Christie as Jack * Anthony Langdon as Les Dewhurst * Wally Thomas as Mr. Chadd * Donald Bisset as Mr. Scully * Terence Davies as Walter * Arnold Diamond as James Ball * Francis Mortimer as Graham * Helena McCarthy as Joyce * Michael Percival as John * Dorothy Frere as Edna Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Play For Today
''Play for Today'' is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were (with a few exceptions noted below) between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration. A handful of these plays, including '' Rumpole of the Bailey'', subsequently became television series in their own right. History The strand was a successor to ''The Wednesday Play'', the 1960s anthology series, the title being changed when the day of transmission moved to Thursday to make way for a sport programme. Some works, screened in anthology series' on BBC2, like Willy Russell's ''Our Day Out'' (1977), were repeated on BBC1 in the series. The producers of ''The Wednesday Play'', Graeme MacDonald and Irene Shubik, transferred to the new series. Shubik continued with the series until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |