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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Death or Glory Boy

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    1 9 7 4 (UK)
    3 x 60 minute episodes

    When 18-year-old David Parker (Christopher Blake) with his grammar school background joins the Army as a regular soldier his hopes are high and he has a commission in mind.

    The trouble is that this is 1950, the rest of his intake at Catterick Camp are National Servicemen, and officer selection is often a matter of having been to the right school and coming from the right background.

    Unfortunately, every character was a stereotype and the author’s premise – that every public schoolboy was an intellectual moron and every Sandhurst trained officer a ridin’ and huntin’ addict, and both of them faintly homosexual – left Martin Jacobs and Jonathan David little chance to develop any sort of individual character, being treated as a pair of Tweedledee and Tweedledum puppets.

    No more fortunate were Jon Glover and John F. Landry whose non-commissioned officers, unable to accept that any recruit was really anxious to learn when shirking was so simple, had no existence outside the writer’s lampoon.

    Meanwhile, our young hero David Parker (who, having been to grammar school could no wrong) was as unconvincing as the rest and – despite the sensitive underplaying of Christopher Blake – came across as an irritating prig whose comeuppance might not have been deserved but was certainly not deplored.

    The three-part series from Yorkshire Television debuted on Sunday 13 January 1974.

    David Parker
    Christopher Blake
    Ramsey
    David Dixon
    Sergeant Walton
    Jon Glover
    Michael Marlowe
    Martin Jacobs
    Sgt Major Nobby Hale
    John F. Landry
    Hammond
    Graham Seed
    Major
    Michael Cadman
    Rifles Major
    Brian Cobby
    Sergeant Potter
    Robert Coleby
    Peter Putnum
    Jonathan David
    Trooper Smiff
    Phil Davis
    Lieutenant-Colonel
    Raymond Francis
    Lady Otley
    Sally Home
    Regimental policeman
    David Janes
    Snell
    Michael Stirrup
    Ashford
    Keith Varnier
    Corporal Skinner
    Paul Vaughan-Teague
    Trooper Amor
    Peter Livens

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