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PLAYHOUSE [BBC2, 1974-83]: The BLACK MADONNA
(1980)
- Copyright date
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- Production start date
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- Production end date
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Production countries
- Great Britain
- Notes
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Library Synopsis
Play based on a novel by Muriel Spark, adapted by Russell Harty. 1950s Britain. Lou Parker feels that she and her husband are different from the Farrells and the Ackerleys. With them it's all television, but she and Ray have the local library and The Observer. Lou and Ray befriend West Indian immigrants Oxford St John and Henry Pierce. After years of...
Top five credits
- Director
- SIMPSON, Michael
- Production Company
- BBC
- Producer
- SHALLCROSS, Alan
- Adapted for television by
- HARTY, Russell
- Author of the Original Work
- SPARK, Muriel
Top five cast
- Lou Parker
- FRASER, Helen
- Ray Parker
- PEEL, Edward
- Oxford St John
- MATTHEWS, Al
- Henry Pierce
- THOMAS, Trevor
- ward sister
- HELME, Kathleen