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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Looking For Clancy

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    5 x 50 minute episodes

    Frank Clancy (Robert Powell) is a superstar Fleet Street journalist and editor in the London of the swinging 60s.

    Frank is appalled to learn that his lifelong best friend, Dick Holt (Keith Drinkel) has committed suicide, and searches for a reason by reflecting on their early lives, recreated in a series of flashbacks, starting in the 1930s when Clancy – the son of an Irish policeman – was a penniless working-class idealist growing up in Hoxton.

    In dire need of money, he is given a job by a right-wing politician and seduced by his wife while her impotent Nazi-sympathiser husband watches kinkily through a trick mirror.

    The characters develop against a social and political backdrop ranging from the General Strike to the Vietnam demonstrations of the 1960s and Dick Holt’s discovery of an atrocity committed by American troops in Vietnam.

    This eventful and entertaining five-part dramatisation of Frederic Mullally’s novel was adapted for the BBC by Jack Pulman.

    Frank Clancy
    Robert Powell
    Dick Holt
    Keith Drinkel
    Penny Clancy
    Catherine Schell
    Helen Kohn
    Caroline Mortimer
    Dai Owen
    James Grout
    George Wells
    Donald Gee
    Edna Malone
    Cherry Morris
    Mr Holt
    Michael Golden
    Madge
    Mavis Walker
    Mrs Baker
    Vivienne Moore
    Lucy Caldwell
    Eileen Helsby
    Ted Shatto
    John Blythe
    Marcus Selby
    T.P. McKenna
    Eileen Clancy
    Barbara Young
    Jim Clancy
    John Junkin
    Aunt Rita
    Rosemary Martin
    Gordon Clancy
    Paul Aston
    Michael Clancy
    John Nightingale
    Meg Mace
    Gwen Nelson
    Grace Clancy
    Brenda Cavendish
    Deirdre Clancy
    Jan Francis

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