Alan Bates – TV Cream

Britannia Hospital

Ever felt this country was a bit like a big, knackered, corrupt old NHS hospital? Top left-wing master of despair Lindsay Anderson...

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Shout, The

A strange premise for a horror film. What can be scary about a shout?

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Whistle Down the Wind

Wide-eyed girl (Hayley ‘That Darn Cat!’ Mills) discovers obvious non-Christ (Alan ‘Once Upon a Tractor’ Bates) to consternation of dad (Bernard ‘Dangerous...

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Nothing But The Best

While TW3 ruled the airwaves, Frederic Raphael wrote this nifty cross between Room at the Top (1959) and My Fair Lady (1964)....

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Go-Between, The

Betrothed Victorian maid Julie Christie and dandy Alan Bates conduct a clandestine affair via titular messenger Dominic Guard, who grows up to...

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Georgy Girl

Top quality swinging social comment, as a floppy Lynn Redgrave stumbles about in awe of loose and louche flatmate Charlotte Rampling, lusts...

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Play Not-Quite-For Today: Series One

Notebooks out, completists!

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Two Sundays

A companion piece to the previous week’s Plaintiffs and Defendants. Peter (Dinsdale Landen) and Hilary (Georgina Hale) wake up, facing the prospect...

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