Thursday, 3 May 2018
994 To Each His Own
First viewed : 5 August 1981
There's scant trace of this on the web, not even an imdb entry. It was a feature length drama on ITV going out both sides of News at Ten. Based loosely on a true case, It starred Julia Watson from Casualty and Hilton McRae as the middle class parents of twins who don't look much alike. When they discover one of them was mistakenly swapped at birth with the son of a single mother , Watson's character Fiona is determined to correct the mistake, whatever the cost.
It was thoroughly absorbing with Fiona's disregard for Alex , the cuckoo in the nest -"he never smelt like mine" - making her utterly detestable. Eventually, it breaks up the marriage facilitating a rather too neat ending with each parent ending up with one of the children. McRae's character Don goes away with Alex and the real twin Billy then opts to stay with his "Mum" because he wanted a dad rather than his real mother and brother. As my work colleague Alison put it though, "that woman shouldn't have ended up with any of them !"
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