Horace (television play)

Horace is a 1972 television play written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clarke, first broadcast as part of a BBC1 new play series on 21 March 1972.[1][2]

Plot

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Diabetic Horace (Barry Jackson) is mentally impaired and works in a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy Gordon Blackett (Stephen Tantum), who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world.

Cast

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Critical reception

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The Daily Telegraph wrote, "Never sentimentalised... sympathetic, touching The piece worked marvellously well."[3]

Television series

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The play was later developed as a six-part half-hour series for Yorkshire Television.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Horace (1972)". BFI. Archived from the original on 22 July 2017.
  2. ^ "Broadcast - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
  3. ^ "Broadcast - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
  4. ^ "Horace Episode 1 Horace in the Swim (1982)". BFI. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021.
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