ARMCHAIR THEATRE: THE DOLLY SCENE

UK | ITV – Thames

RUNNING TIME:60 minute episode | NUMBER OF EPISODES: 1 | AIRDATE: Tuesday 3 November 1970 @ 9.00pm

WRITER: John Hopkins | EDITOR: John Kershaw | PRODUCTION DESIGN: Roger Allan | EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Lloyd Shirley | DIRECTOR: Peter Duguid

Drama The Dolly Scene focuses on unlucky in love Anna who seems to have a hard time finding her perfect man, her lovers are either married or her boss! Maybe the young man she meets in a coffee bar will be different.

Any John Hopkins drama is going to be worth watching, this drama, for Armchair Theatre, gained a reasonable amount of press thanks to a role for the then popular DJ Stuart Henry who had started out as a drama student at Glasgow Drama College.

cast

SINEAD CUSACK as Anna

BASIL HENSON as Hunter

STUART HENRY as The Young Man

ROY MARSDEN as Gerry

JOHN ABINERI as Chemist’s Assistant

JOHN GORRIE as Man in Chemists

SHARON GURNEY as Marian

MICHAEL PENNINGTON as Tom

VENETIA MAZWELL as Penny

LEE DONALD, RENATE ROMAN, STEVEN SUTHERLAND as Party Guests