Your parents move in. Your sanity moves out. Dennis Potter's suburban nightmare.
Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestWretchedly unhappy, Sylvia has taken to solitary walks. Caught in a thunderstorm, she manages to save a child from a tree struck by lightning.
Elderly couple Sylvia and Arthur Calvert are forced to move in with their widowed son and his children in Carshall New Town.
Writing
Potter's dialogue cuts like broken glass in a biscuit tin.
Acting
Dandy Nichols turns passive aggression into high art.
Creator
Dennis Potter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Carshall New Town was based on Hemel Hempstead, where Potter grew up watching concrete crush community.
Potter later called this his 'most truthful' work — his own mother died in similar circumstances, and he never forgave himself.
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