Rent Armchair Theatre: Vol.3 (1975)
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- Synopsis:
Pioneering, enormously influential and often challenging, 'Armchair Theatre' was ITV's flagship drama anthology series. Bringing high-quality contemporary drama to a wider viewing public, the series easily demonstrated the network's potential to rival the BBC's drama output with diverse and powerful plays by some of Britain's most gifted writers. This set comprises twelve plays taken from the series' first incarnation, produced by ABC and broadcast in the 1950's and '60's. An astonishing roll-call of writers includes J.B. Priestley, Harold Pinter, James Mitchell, Fay Weldon and Alun Owen; Patrick McGoohan, Stanley Baker, Billie Whitelaw, Colin Blakely, Judy Cornwell and Hugh Griffith are among the celebrated and accomplished actors appearing in groundbreaking dramas ranging from the playful to the poignant. - Actors:
- Patrick McGoohan, Stanley Baker, Billie Whitelaw, Colin Blakely, Judy Cornwell, Hugh Griffith, Ian Hendry, Janet Munro
- Directors:
- James Ferman, William T. Kotcheff, Charles Jarrott, Philip Saville, Dennis Vance
- Producers:
- Sydney Newman, Dennis Vance, Leonard White
- Writers:
- J.B. Priestley, James Mitchell, Fay Weldon, Alun Owen, Eric Paice, Malcolm Hulke, Harold Pinter, Donal Giltinan, Ronald Hardy, Robert Muller, James Broom lynne, Evan Jones
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Dramas
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Bedbound, but active - Armchair Theatre: Vol.3 review by CH
"A gin, please."
"With what?"
"A glass!"
Snappy dialogue in J.B.Priestley's glorious 1957 telly play - Now Let Him Go - about an ailing painter Simon Kendall - redolent of Augustus John (then still alive) - holed up and ailing in a remote pub's bedroom. His niece is named... Felicity, played by June Thorburn, who ded, five months' pregnant when an aeroplane crashed on return from Spain in Sussex in 1967. She was terrific. And a ticket inspector is played by John Schlesinger. A welcome addition to the growing fresh interest in Priestley's work.
Also on the first disc in this set is Pinter's A Night Oit (1960, soon after it had been broadcast as a radio play): almost a Classical tragedy, this hour about the consequences of a domineering mother.