Council officer Nigel Stock’s mid-life crisis at his brother’s pub causes him to see life as a game show populated by Donald McGill-style saucy seaside postcard cartoon characters, animated in inserts throughout the play. A second play by Douglas Livingstone in the same style, Everybody Say Cheese, concerning a failing marriage and using family snaps as a visual device, was broadcast the following year.
I Can’t See My Little Willie
1970 on BBC1
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