"Alma Mater" is the 11th episode of first season of the British

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anthology TV series ''

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''. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 7 January 1971. "Alma Mater" was written by David Hodson, directed by

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and produced by

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. In the play

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Jimmy Nicholson (

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) returns home after a long period working in the

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to visit his son at

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, the same school where he himself attended. It is the school's sports day, and old school grudges come flooding back. The cast included

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, Nigel Hawthorne, Dinah Sheridan,

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and

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. No recording of this ''Play for Today'' is known to survive.

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