Colin Welland – TV Cream

United Kingdom

By Jim Allen. More social(ist) comment from Allen, this time centering on a breakaway local council in the North-East headed by a...

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Blue Remembered Hills

A wartime countryside idyll (closely modelled, of course, on Dennis Potter’s Forest of Dean domain) is populated by seven-year-old children playing in...

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Yer Man from Six Counties

By Colin Welland. Young boy Joseph Reynolds loses his dad in an IRA bomb blast and moves out to his uncle’s remote...

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Passage to England, A

By Leon Griffiths. A superficially light-hearted tale of Asians attempting illegal immigration from Amsterdam to British shores on a fishing vessel. Starring...

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Just Another Saturday

Jon Morrison plays an eager young mace-twirling Orange Parade leader in Glasgow, gradually finding out the unpleasant, violent truth behind the symbolic...

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Leeds – United!

Colin Welland delves into a favourite subject of Play for Today writers, industrial relations, with a look at a strike in a...

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Jack Point

Old and young members of a Gilbert and Sullivan society get under each other’s feet in the run-up to a special Jubilee...

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Hallelujah Handshake, The

A social misfit gets the friendship and affection he craves by deceitfully insinuating himself into various church congregations. Directed by Alan Clarke,...