Bernard Hepton played Norman Potter, a shy, balding, former factory worker whose get-up-and-go had got up and gone. All his ambitions had amounted to nought, and he was now content to do little all day except watch television.
His wife, Sadie (Rosemary Leach), approached life with all the enthusiasm of one who had spent most of hers washing, shopping, cooking and cleaning.
They had been married for 23 years and were now middle-aged grandparents, wondering how life had managed to pass them by without them realising it, and how other people seemed to find the modern ways perfectly acceptable.
Neither truly listened to the other’s woes and complaints. Even their daughter Marilyn (“she’s got fat legs and a deep freeze the size of our kitchen – and nothing in it!”) seemed a disillusioned soul.
Sadie Potter
Rosemary Leach Norman Potter
Bernard Hepton Marilyn
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