Alma Mater (Play for Today) explained

Series:Play for Today
Series No:1
Episode:11
Director:James Ferman
Producer:Irene Shubik
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"Alma Mater" is the 11th episode of first season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 7 January 1971. "Alma Mater" was written by David Hodson, directed by James Ferman and produced by Irene Shubik.

In the play civil servant Jimmy Nicholson (Ian Carmichael) returns home after a long period working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school, the same school that he himself attended. It is the school's sports day, and old school grudges come flooding back.[1]

The cast included Max Adrian, Hilda Braid, Nigel Hawthorne, Dinah Sheridan, Anthony Andrews and Christopher Reynalds.[2]

No recording of this Play for Today is known to survive.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.tvcream.co.uk/?p=6478#more "Alma Mater"
  2. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0721517/ Christopher Reynalds
  3. Web site: Missing episode in programme Play for Today. lost shows. 23 October 2020.