A 1964 TV drama where suburbia's polite mask slips—slowly, quietly, then all at once.
Roland Green who thinks the world is all safe soon realises that the world he lives in can be a bit wicked sometimes.
Acting
Peter Sallis's trembling civility before he became Wallace & Gromit.
Direction
McWhinnie's claustrophobic studio staging, live TV pressure.
Director
Donald McWhinnie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peter Sallis later joked this role was 'practice for being pushed around by a plasticine dog.' The BBC wiped many Drama '64 episodes—this one survives by luck.
Shot in the era of the Profumo Affair, when British establishment hypocrisy dominated headlines. Green's middle-class naivety mirrors a nation waking up.
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