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The Mutants - season 09 - 1972

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To Encourage the Others (BBC, 1972)

"Sergeant Fairfax has told us that he came and grabbed Bentley, and while you were all there together by the head of the lift shaft, you deliberately shot him -"

"I didn't, sir."

"- having been incited to do so by Bentley saying, 'Let him have it, Chris'. Now, are you saying you did not hear that?"

"Bentley didn't say it."

"Well, three officers heard it in the darkness from different points of the compass. Are you saying he did not say it?"

"I'm saying I didn't hear it, and if they heard it then they got better hearing than mine."

#To encourage the others #alan clarke #BBC #Single play #classic tv #David Yallop #Charles Bolton #Billy Hamon #Roland Culver #Philip Stone #Wensley Pithey #Arthur Lovegrove #Carmel McSharry #John Ringham #Ken Halliwell #Michael Sheard #Christopher Coll #Derrick Slater #A hugely significant work in the filmography of Clarke and indeed an incredibly important piece of British TV. Sometimes described as a #Play for Today altho there's no evidence it was ever transmitted under that banner (it probably had many of the same team working on it tho #That wouldn't be unusual). The Bentley case is lodged in the public consciousness of the UK as one of the most blatant and shocking #Miscarriages of justice in the modern era; this play followed the 71 publication of a book of the same name which sought to clear Bentley's #Name and establish the facts of the case. In the process Clarke and writer Yallop establish the benchmark for producing riveting docudrama;#Court room scenes follow official transcripts and reenactments are cleverly staged as a sequence of bw photographs. For all that it's #Professional and measured in approach you can't miss the subtle rage which beats just below the surface: rage at a system which knowingly #Perverts itself to mete out punishment it feels befitting. Clarke keeps the screen very crowded and tight giving everything a claustrophobi #Desperate feel (which of course is only heightened in the scenes in Bentley's cell). The use of quotation cards and official statement #Extracts is only another carefully considered tool as well; the very final quote (from the then crown prosecution service and informing the #Production team that there was not requisite public interest in reopening Bentley's case 20 years after his death) feels like a punch to #The gut. That it would in fact be another 25 years after this play aired before Bentley was finally pardoned is an affront to all decency.

The Brothers: A Family Gathering (2.1, BBC, 1973)

"Your mother said that you'd never marry me while she was alive."

"Well, she, she was upset, I mean, it was just something to say!"

"She knew you better than I did."

#The brothers #1973 #BBC #classic tv #Jean Anderson #Patrick o'connell #richard easton #Robin chadwick #jennifer wilson #Julia goodman #Derek benfield #Mark mcmanus #john welsh #Sarah grazebrook #Christopher coll #Quentin Lawrence #N. J. Crisp #And we're back! The most conspicuous change is of course the recasting of Ted. I'm not sure why Glyn Owen moved on (there is nothing on his #Filmography to suggest he left for another role; perhaps he simply didn't feel like being attached to a potentially long running series #Having had the experience on Emergency Ward 10). Pat O'Connell feels like an unusual choice to replace him: the two men could hardly be #More different not just in terms of looks and height but even in voice and manner. Still Pat settles in well. Elsewhere we have Mary #Hammond being just an awful snoop and making trouble for Ted and Jennifer's burgeoning relationship whilst Brian is struggling without Ann #And the children. There's also new opening titles and even a notable improvement in picture quality (admittedly impossible to tell from #These truly woeful images). Ted and Jenny's bickering is painful but it's nice to see Ted being a good boss as he helps a recently single #Father to adapt his work times to look after his children. Oh and there's a mysterious Australian prowling about the depot.. I'm sure it's #Nothing.... Probably....

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