The Other Side
- 1979
- Ended
- Drama
- 1 season
Anthology of plays, each featuring an element of the 'flipside'.
Latest: Season 1 · 1979
View all seasonsE1. Connie
Apr 27, 1979 · 55m
Connie decides to defend her pregnant friend Gina, but soon discovers why people may not always be willing to tell the truth.
E2. Underdog
May 4, 1979
Down in the street, a military band marches into a cul-de-sac. High up in the Secret Service, Skellow checks the tennis court booking and awaits his adversary, sure that Adwick has no answer to his rapier-like backhand volley...
E3. A Greenish Man
May 11, 1979
Troy, a lively young man, not entirely Irish, comes to ask for compensation from the man who put the lead in his brain. But the Irish, he learns, are the most inventive race in the world.
E4. Only Connect
May 18, 1979 · 50m
Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) was an early socialist and a pioneer for Gay Rights in the north of England. Graham, researching the early Labour Movement, wants the facts. But people, he learns to his advantage, are not textbooks.
E5. Contacts
May 25, 1979
'I don't take sides. I've got a job to do and I'm going to get it done. Just like you. I'm a whore.' ' I'm going to get photographs that nobody else got, because I'm prepared to go further.'
Cast
Nigel Hawthorne
Skellow
Joseph O'Conor
John Bury
Marjorie Yates
Connie
Pip Donaghy
Troy
Susan Brown
Joyce
Harry Towb
O'Malley
Ray Mort
Frank
Sam Dale
Graham
Tony Rohr
Patrick
Janine Duvitski
Gina
Anton Rodgers
Adwick
Gwen Nelson
Mam
Christopher Banks
E. M. Forster
Karl Johnson
Colin
Stefan Kalipha
Tamian Wazzer
Shay Gorman
George
Terry Molloy
Bowden
Eric Francis
Bert