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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Bouquet of Barbed Wire/Another Bouquet

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    7 x 60 minute episodes
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    Andrea Newman adapted her steamy, sexy novel, A Bouquet of Barbed Wire, for this seven-part LWT drama series, which was essentially the story of a man’s obsessive love for his daughter – with Frank Finlay and Susan Penhaligon in the main roles.

    Finlay played Peter Manson, a wealthy publisher living in ticketyboo Surrey, stricken with jealous passion when pouting Prue, his daughter (Penhaligon) got married.

    Television had discovered incest – among the middle classes, too – and 20 million viewers were tuning in to see how miserable it made all concerned.

    American James Aubrey (who played Prue’s husband, Gavin Sorenson) recalled; “I was introduced to the actress who plays my wife. About 30 seconds later I was in bed with her. Then I was beating her senseless and within a flash I was at her funeral”.

    The all-purpose tease, Prue, was soon tagged television’s ‘right little bitch’, but unlike soap opera proper she died at the end of the first series (of a pulmonary embolism after childbirth) and the producers could find no way of bringing her back the following year. But they didn’t do bad considering.

    In Another Bouquet in 1977, Sheila Allen – who played Manson’s wife and was about the only decent person in the cast – promptly took the grieving young Gavin as her lover and Peter then had a fraught affair with Gavin’s new girlfriend, played by Elizabeth Romilly.

    Peter Manson
    Frank Finlay 
    Prue Sorenson

    Susan Penhaligon 
    Gavin Sorenson 

    James Aubrey
    Cassie Manson 

    Sheila Allen
    Sarah Francis 

    Deborah Grant 
    Geoff Roberts 

    Eric Carte
    Vicky
    Elizabeth Romilly
    Rupert Warner 

    Roland Curram
    Simon 

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