Bam! Pow! Zap! (The Wednesday Play – BBC-1 1969 with Robert Powell and Clive Revill)

Posted by By Alastair James March 17, 2016 TV UK TV

UK / BBC-1 / 1×75 minute episode / Broadcast 5 March 1969

Writer: Nigel Kneale / Producer: Graeme McDonald / Director: William Slater

Series: The Wednesday Play / Season 5 Episode 21

Drama. A young yob suffers remorse and shame after taking part in the vicious attack of a bank cashier.

cast
Clive Revill as Walter Trapnell
Pauline Delany as May Trapnell
Robert Powell as Arkie
Neil Johnston as Mike
Charles Bolton as Scanlan
Jeremy Ranchev as Clem
Patrick Westwood as Ted Parsloe
Amy Mitchell as Barmaid
John Dunbar as Customer in Pub
Pierre Bedenes as Pongo
Richard Pescud as Mike’s Father
Pat Beckett as Arkie’s Mother
Susan Porrett as Carol Trapnell
Robert James as Doctor Gossard

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