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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Holly

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    1 9 7 2 (UK)
    6 x 60 minute episodes

    Holly (Brigit Forsyth) Elliot is bright. She’s a university graduate who is taking an evening class in art appreciation. Her husband, David (Paul Moriarty) is not so bright. He works for a mail-order firm and is trying hard to keep up with his wife by taking an extramural degree in his spare time.

    Gordon Godolphin (William Gaunt), like Holly, is bright. He is a practising psychologist and ex-university friend of Holly who spends a lot of time with her and David, analysing their unsatisfactory marriage. Although he has cast himself in the role of their best friend, Gordon secretly lusts after Holly and is jealous of her marriage to David.

    David and Holly are celebrating their second wedding anniversary when she’s drugged and abducted by Tom Prentiss (David Burke), another college contemporary who has spent several of the intervening years in a mental institution and who is openly obsessed with Holly. He keeps her prisoner in a derelict windmill.

    David has no idea what happened to Holly while she was Tom’s prisoner, and Holly is reluctant to explain her strange attitude to the man who abducted her.

    Holly eventually leaves David, and in the end, of all the people whose lives have been changed by Tom’s act of madness, David Elliot has suffered most.

    He has to accept that Holly will never come back to him, that all she wants is for Tom to be free. And she has psychiatrist Gordon to help her because she has moved into his flat. So David is the outsider now.

    Produced by Granada, Holly aired on ITV on Friday nights.

    Holly Elliot
    Brigit Forsyth
    David Elliot 

    Paul Moriarty 
    Tom Prentiss 

    David Burke
    Gordon Godolphin 

    William Gaunt 
    Det. Sgt. Wilmot 

    Ray Lonnen 
    Mr Mattingley 

    Harry Beety
    Mrs Mattingley 

    Rosalie Williams
    Mike Underwood 

    Peter Birrel 
    Mr Elliot 

    Richard Butler
    Jonty Myerson 

    Michael Hawkins
    Debs Myerson 

    Aideen O’Kelly

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