Horace is a 1972 television play written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clarke, first broadcast as part of a BBC1 new play series on 21 March 1972.[1][2]
Plot
editDiabetic Horace (Barry Jackson) is mentally impaired and works in a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy Gordon Blackett (Stephen Tantum), who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world.
Cast
edit- Horace - Barry Jackson
- Gordon - Stephen Tantum
- Ivy - Christine Hargreaves
- Dick - Talfryn Thomas
- Mrs Radford - Hazel Coppen
- Sidney - James Mellor
- Miss Bowler - Patricia Lawrence
- Mr Scrimshaw - Robert Hartley
- Mr Frankel - Howard Goorney
- Whitsun - Ken Parry
- Brenda - Caleigh Simmons
- Mrs Beal - Daphne Heard
- Customer - Eric Francis
- Waitress - Pamela Miles
- Jeffries - Jeffrey Gardiner
Critical reception
editThe Daily Telegraph wrote, "Never sentimentalised... sympathetic, touching The piece worked marvellously well."[3]
Television series
editThe play was later developed as a six-part half-hour series for Yorkshire Television.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Horace (1972)". BFI. Archived from the original on 22 July 2017.
- ^ "Broadcast - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Broadcast - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Horace Episode 1 Horace in the Swim (1982)". BFI. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021.
External links
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