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"Play for Today" Angels Are So Few (1970)
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"Play for Today" (1970)Original Air Date:
5 November 1970 (Season 1, Episode 4)Plot:
For the BBC's WEDNESDAY PLAY series, Dennis Potter offered one of his "visitation dramas": Housewife... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Potter, The Greatest Con Ever Sold moreCast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Tom Bell | ... | Michael Biddle |
| Christine Hargreaves | ... | Cynthia Nicholls |
| Susan Richards | ... | Mrs. Cawser |
| Erik Chitty | ... | Mr. Cawser |
| Barry Cookson | ... | Richard Nicholls |
| Godfrey James | ... | Postman |
| Beryl Cook | ... | Storyteller |
| Beryl Cooke | ... | Storyteller |
| John Glyn-Jones | ... | Clergyman |
| Kenneth Ives | ... | Interviewer |
| Denise Buckley | ... | Danish Girl |
| Dorothea Rundle | ... | Old Lady |
| Matthew Davies | ... | Timothy |
| Daphne Howgate | ... | Nude |
| Lena Ellis | ... | Nude |
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One more piece of Potter's overblown rubbish. The acting staff is mediocre and the director seems stuck in cement. A homeless dude imagines he's an angel. A postman, a husband, a wife, etc., appear at various times, each more tedious then the other. The script has no momentum, each line has to be echoed and driven in with a sledgehammer. Were the audience such dopes back then? Was this the best they could do? All in all, I am increasingly bored with this Dennis Potter product line. He was a narcissistic fellow and gave nice chatty interviews and I have sympathy for his psoriasis, etc. But . . . Were they all drinking buddies, or what? On what basis was he appointed the High Priest of BBC drama, etc? Was there NO competition? Did England produce, perhaps, comedians only? Because they had some funny guys: Peter Cook, a genius of comedy . . . and this Potter -- such a dullard. I am sad.