Tuesday, 5 December 2017
854 Tickets for the Titanic
First viewed : 9 March 1988
That William G Stewart was a contrary cove. As well as hosting Fifteen To One, the producer of that most materialistic show The Price Is Right also produced this series of six state-of-the-nation plays for Channel Four which were decidedly critical of Thatcherism. The series was split over two seasons in 1987 and 1988.
I only saw the last one Everyone A Winner , because it was written by Barry Pilton whose humorous account of walking the Pennine Way, One Man and His Bog I'd recently enjoyed.
The play posited a world where Thatcherism ran on unchecked for decades and starred Jonathan Pryce as a well-meaning vicar trying to hold on to traditional cultural values in a world of rampant philistinism. He's relieved when his son gets a job at the British Museum then finds it consists of breaking up the exhibits and selling off the chunks to the highest bidder. Anna Carteret played his wife, a private nurse whose services go beyond medical care ( there was a brief glimpse of her boobs ).
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