A plumber walks into academia and nobody gets the joke. Least of all them.
A plumber named Benny tries to find his way around a university, and gets no sense out of the intellectuals who work and study there.
Acting
Chris Farlowe's bewildered everyman vs. theatrical academic posturing.
Direction
Reid's surgical skewering of 70s university culture.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes jargon against itself.
Director
Alastair Reid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made at the height of 1970s British campus unrest, this aired on ITV as part of the 'Sunday Night Thriller' slot—though what thrills here is bureaucratic paralysis, not murder.
Chris Farlowe was primarily a rock vocalist (famous for his Jagger-produced 'Out of Time')—this remains his most substantial acting role, essentially playing himself as a working-class fish gasping in academic waters.
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