Top Posts Tagged with #peter whitbread

#Mr. Axelford's Angel

#ITV Playhouse

#Single play

#Yorkshire Television

#1974

#Peter whitbread

#John frankau

#Julia Foster

#Michael Bryant

#Lally bowers

#Robert raglan

#Jacqueline stanbury

#Katy wild

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#Whitbread was first and foremost a stage actor who took odd jobs on TV to keep the coffers full; as a screenwriter he had only a handful

#Of titles to his name (most notably a clutch of Emmerdale Farm episodes and the creation of well remembered children's series The Flockton

#Flyer)‚ and yet he somehow hit paydirt with this freelance script for ITVs drama anthology series: Angel would go on to win rave reviews‚

#Getting a repeat showing the following Valentines day‚ was nominated for two BAFTAs and won the emmy for best fiction programme 1974

#A considerable coup for a modest romantic comedy‚ filmed mostly on video tape on a couple of simple sets with a small cast. Bryant was one

#Of the uks most versatile and talented character actors‚ tho he wasn't exactly a star‚ and Foster was popular but never quite broke out the

#Way she should have. So why so much fuss for such average acorns? Hard to say. Not that this isn't a good play; it's very sweet‚ a classic

#Culture clash romance in which working class secretary and stuffy titan of industry find themselves drawn together. But there isn't very

#Much to set it apart from any other play from ITV‚ or indeed the BBC‚ in this era. These were the years of the single play‚ hundreds

#Produced each year‚ and yet this is the one that for whatever reason grabbed the public consciousness. So it goes. It is rather sweet and

#Both leads are very well suited to this particular brand of meet cute without taking the parts too far (he too cold and imperious‚ she too

#Ditzy and free living). It's just a fairly simple story told well. Perhaps it was that simplicity that so appealed to the general public?

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