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PLAY FOR TODAY: ANGELS ARE SO FEW (TV)
Summary
One in this dramatic anthology series. In one of writer Dennis Potter's visitation dramas -- where normality is overturned by the arrival of an unexpected stranger, a guest who may be supernatural, imaginary, or possibly deranged -- Michael Biddle (Bell), convinced he is an angel, disrupts the numbing routine of housewife Cynthia Nicholls (Hargreaves). After viewing a documentary on sexual freedom with her prudish husband, Cynthia, repressed and unfullfilled, decides to see if the putative angel has wings. Potter reuses the character of Michael in the 1973 teleplay "Only Make Believe."
Details
- NETWORK: BBC (United Kingdom)
- DATE: November 5, 1970
- RUNNING TIME: 1:03:10
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:23320
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; International Collection - United Kingdom
- SERIES RUN: BBC (United Kingdom) - TV, 1970-1984
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Graeme McDonald … Producer
- Gareth Davies … Director
- Dennis Potter … Writer
- Tom Bell … Cast, Michael Biddle
- Christine Hargreaves … Cast, Cynthia Nicholls
- Susan Richards … Cast, Mrs. Cawser
- Erik Chitty … Cast, Mr. Cawser
- Barry Cookson … Cast, Richard Nicholls
- Godfrey James … Cast, Postman
- Beryl Cooke … Cast, the Storyteller
- John Glyn Jones … Cast, the Clergyman
- Kenneth Ives … Cast, the Interviewer
- Denise Buckley … Cast, the Danish Girl
- Dorothea Rundle … Cast, the Old Lady
- Matthew Davies … Cast, Timothy