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    This series of eight plays from ATV achieved continuity by having one protagonist from each self-contained hour-long story reappear in the next, which worked admirably.

    The link between the first and second stories – ‘The Letter of the Law’ and ‘Repent at Leisure’, both directed by Gareth Davies – was PC Geoff Dryden (Cornelius Garrett), an unpretentious and masculine police constable recovering from an unhappy affair with an actress, who has been transferred to a Black Country town and finds himself in a world seething with undercurrents of repressed emotion and bitter winds of marital conflict.

    Judy Loe as Susan Purser was tough, attractive and sympathetic and caught the spirit of the modern independent woman with lively accuracy. The scenes between her and Dryden had a genuine sensuality that made the ultimate disintegration of their relationship the more disturbing.

    Kate Coleridge gave unselfish and thoughtful support as Susan’s friend and colleague, Liz.

    Geoff’s emotional life appears to take an immediate turn for the better when – within minutes of arriving at his new lodgings – he meets Pamela (Stephanie Turner), an attractive young woman posing as a respectable boarding house keeper. But after bedding the young constable with businesslike rapidity, she announces she is no such thing.

    A man, to all intents and purposes a husband, turns out to be a brother and a mute couple called Norman (Frederick Radley) and Jean (Molly Veness) turn out to be, not only Mum and Dad, but vituperatively articulate.

    Donald Churchill wrote and starred in the third play, ‘Alice Trying’ which featured Judy Parfitt as Alice Pearson, exposing the distress of a woman for whom sexuality is both a threat and an obscure object of desire. Her brother, Eric (David Allister) is tormented by his own perversity, with a taut misery that compliments his sister’s despair.

    Churchill also appeared in play #4 – ‘Last Knockings’ – where he was joined in the cast by Arwen Holm, Gillian Raine, Tony Mathers, Antony Carrick, Dorothea Phillips and Ronald Russell.

    Play #5 was ‘Big Deal’, directed by Don Leaver and set in Oxford with Arwen Holm joined by Warren Clarke, John Bryans, Morris O’Connell and Graham Rowe. The sixth play, ‘Family’ was directed by Ian Fordyce and starred Malcolm Stoddard.

    Play #7, ‘The Sponge Man’ (directed by Paul Annett) was set in Nottingham and featured Paul Greenwood, Carol Royle, Geoffrey Colville, Teddy Turner, Donald Burton, Sue Nicholls and Geoffrey Monk.

    The final play, ‘Working Arrangements’ was also directed by Paul Annett. In addition to the reappearance of Paul Greenwood and Judy Loe, Charles Gray, Ronald Hines, Katharine Blake, Edith Macarthur, Anita Kaye, Sheila Keith and Michael Culver also featured in the cast.

    Viewers were certainly kept on their toes.

    Susan Purser
    Judy Loe
    PC Geoff Dryden
    Cornelius Garrett
    Alice Pearson
    Judy Parfitt
    Eric Pearson
    David Allister
    Norman
    Frederick Radley
    Jean
    Molly Veness
    Henry Sutcliffe
    Donald Churchill
    Ray Boston
    Malcolm Stoddard
    Andy Day
    Paul Greenwood
    Monica Barnes
    Arwen Holm
    Jane Price
    Carol Royle
    Barney 
    Christian McKinley
    Pamela
    Stephanie Turner
    Dr Stafford
    John Bryans
    Jimmy
    Edward Judd
    Aunt Lucy
    Katharine Blake
    Dr Hugh Penney
    Geoffrey Colville
    Betty
    Gillian Raine
    Stella
    Lynda Baron
    Richard Painter
    Warren Clarke
    Tony Erskine
    Michael Culver
    Ken Burrows
    Teddy Turner
    Steve
    Richard Hope
    Leonard Moss
    Donald Burton
    Mrs Wheeler
    Edith MacArthur
    Mr Wheeler
    Charles Gray
    Joyce
    Sue Nicholls
    Liz
    Kate Coleridge
    Mark Moss
    Geoff Monk
    Johnny
    Shango Baku
    Eric Pearson
    David Allister
    Sgt. Lockton
    Graham Ashley
    Mr Soames
    Charles Bentley
    Mrs Wood
    Vera Jakob
    Gibbon
    Gertan Klauber
    Alec
    David Landbury
    Mrs Smith
    Mary MacLeod
    Hector
    Robert Mill
    Norbert
    Maurice O’Connell
    Charlesworth
    Graham Rowe
    Mr Porter
    Clive Wouters
    Mrs Porter
    Hetty Baynes
    Jack Holcroft
    Victor Brooks
    Martin Boston
    Jeremy Bulloch
    Rita Boston
    Mary Kenton
    Mr Cuthbert
    Antony Carrick
    Mrs Armstrong
    Ann Davies
    Iris
    Marion Fiddick
    Mrs Barnes
    Gilly Flower
    Clive
    Frederick Hall
    Harry
    Michael Hall
    Alec
    Denys Hawthorne
    Brian
    Ronald Hines
    Mrs Mason
    Ruth Holden
    Mr Mason
    George Selway
    Marilyn
    Anita Kay
    Grace
    Sheila Keith
    Rodney Claydon
    Tony Mathews
    Lady Claydon
    Jacqueline Maude
    Mr Barnes
    Ronald Mayer
    Joan
    Julie Mellon
    Miss Ferguson
    Dorothea Phillips
    Mr Armstrong
    David Rolfe
    Sir Percy Claydon
    Ronald Russell

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    The Letter of the Law | Repent at Leisure | Alice Trying | Last Knockings| Big Deal | Family | The Sponge Man | Working Arrangements

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