PLAY FOR TODAY -- A Gift from Nessus ( 10th Season )

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Executive Decision

Жыл бұрын

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@stevealdous5905 16 күн бұрын

Remarkable play and Remarkable acting.

@zoyablake9538 Жыл бұрын

The brilliant Ken Hutchinson. Thank you so much.

@emmacohen3926 10 ай бұрын

Just loved this,,many heartfelt thanks,👏👏🇬🇧

@vanessahawarden9028 Жыл бұрын

Powerful, evocative and just….great

@trevorbailey1486 Жыл бұрын

The myth of Nessus proved wonderful inspiration for this modern version. The conversation among the salesmen was perfect: who ever heard of a hero who didn't die young, who lived until plagued in old age with halitosis? Thank you for posting another excellent play. It and the others on your channel are welcome in my house.

@lornamcperets Жыл бұрын

very well acted, sad that we make our own hell on earth ., but very realistic.

@nin9249 10 ай бұрын

Love the olive walls and the chunky layered hairdo’s - oh and that computer on the bosses desk is to die for , take me back, baby!

@tridbant 9 ай бұрын

Not a computer. It was one those machines that read plastic sheets with information on it. A viewer.

@chrisstone8210 Жыл бұрын

This is a good one. Very convincing drama.

@Eddy191152 10 ай бұрын

Ken Hutchison was a fantastic actor!

@Sniffer-NUFC 3 ай бұрын

Mac Murphy.

@RadicalRoots23 6 ай бұрын

Good to hear some lower middle class/a bit educated accents in a play set in Scotland, since most of them then were set in very poor working class areas and stories. Nothing wrong with that, i like those type of stories too. but Scotland is not just that, its a social and accent mix...

@philfletcher3434 Жыл бұрын

The thought that crossed my mind after Eddie had half strangled his wife was: he's not going to earn nearly enough money working in a book shop to support his wife and family in the manner to which they've become accustomed? And she didn't seem the type to make noble sacrifices either.

@1e0s 7 ай бұрын

There was something special about Ken Hutchingson. He brought an understated intensity to TV that is usually captured in movies

@rosemarymccarron3887 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant play.

@georgemcconnachie477 Жыл бұрын

The acting superb really enjoyed These plays the depth of the subjects Politacal or otherwise. It puts to shame the garbage They put on now.

@tominnis8353 9 ай бұрын

Happy memories. Thanks for recording and uploading. An excellent play.

@shirley8155 8 ай бұрын

An excellent play. I didn't know the myth of Nessus, so the ending was unexpected. I'm way past all those sort of relationships, but human beings don't change so i assume it all still goes on. Relationships become traps - it's no ones fault really just that each individual changes so that the 2 people do not fit together any more when they thought they would fit forever.

@geoffjoffy Күн бұрын

They are incapable of making Tv like this now. Thanks.

@voxpopuval Жыл бұрын

Thanks for another excellent video!

@simonwoodward438 Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this one

@charlesachurch7265 8 ай бұрын

Phenomenal performance. I would recommend this to Tarantino .This is a great drama.

@executivedecision6141 8 ай бұрын

Quentin Tarentino makes real movies.... not TV shows shot mostly on videotape! And not that much anymore, since Quentin is mostly retired at this point. But if and when he makes another film, the only 1970s references in his films are from American exploitation films....not British TV dramas.

@PM2022 5 ай бұрын

Is Tarantino your friend?

@user-fx7cu1ij8u 3 ай бұрын

Good movie👍

@joecarr2224 Жыл бұрын

As engaging as the table monologist.

@stevenmurphy9225 10 ай бұрын

Glengarry Glenross springs to mind

@chriswilliams2514 11 ай бұрын

Great play. Xxxx❤❤❤😊

@jacksugden8190 4 ай бұрын

Eddie really was a nasty peace of work, let’s hope his conscience was clear to continue with his marriage to Alison.

@BroonParker Жыл бұрын

Cheery!

@stepchicken3238 9 ай бұрын

Smoking and eating together, and smoking in front of someone eating, used to annoy me. Now smokers can't smoke outside - in some places.

@executivedecision6141 9 ай бұрын

Well you're describing the United States, where I am. Has a similar change in smoking laws happened in England too since then ?

@voulafisentzidis8830 8 ай бұрын

I feel no sympathy for the mistress. She should never had got involved with him. I'm sorry for the wife. UPDATE: Having now watched the whole thing I believe the husband and wife deserve each other. The mistress made a mistake in getting involved with a married man but he wasn't worth dying for. Excellent!

@JohnHonda101 Жыл бұрын

£1.10 for a gallon of petrol.

@andersdottir1111 Жыл бұрын

A mediocre salesman is not worth taking your life for- she could have done better.

@BroonParker Жыл бұрын

If this were real (which it isn't) it might be worth saying that no one should be worth taking your own life. Doesn't matter about the job or how good he was at it, does it? I really hope that someone's suicide never touches you.

@antoniaburns3522 Жыл бұрын

Very true. But, as he was played by the gorgeous Ken Hutchison, I can see how she fell for him, and ended her life in emotional agony. So sad.

@stepchicken3238 9 ай бұрын

He's a 'chippy prole' - loads of them in those days; would have been happier on a building site, but the others on the site would've found him too mouthy. Actually, he reminds me of John Lennon, in a different life, even looks a bit like him.

@missdonutaltaccount1380 Жыл бұрын

I saw this on the side saying on next & for the date it just showed 12... the rest didnt show up and the quality looked old so I thought, oh this is 12 years old, *clicks* date: 12 Days Ago, I was shocked, but when was this film made?

@executivedecision6141 Жыл бұрын

This episode is from 1979 or 1980. Sometimes old is good! I was mostly a pre-teen when Play for Today was produced, and they didn't show this series here in the U.S. back then and they still don't.

@philfletcher3434 Жыл бұрын

@@executivedecision6141 And there was me thinking you're British to the core!

@executivedecision6141 Жыл бұрын

@@philfletcher3434 😆

@vivienneandersson6019 Жыл бұрын

@@executivedecision6141 Never thought an American would appreciate the subtlety and nuance of these dramas having lived there for 10 years a while ago! Thanks for them!

@executivedecision6141 Жыл бұрын

@@vivienneandersson6019 It depends on the strength of the writing, acting, and if I can understand their accents! 😄 The episodes filmed in Scotland and Ireland are painful to listen to, and I can't get through an hour & 1/2.... so they're among the episodes I skip watching.

@HookBeak_66 Жыл бұрын

A familiar tale yet still the characters held strong & were portrayed with vigor. Parts did seem to drag unnecessarily, but what annoyed me more was, twice I saw the overhead boom microphone. The actors put so much into their roles, the least the cameraman can do is keep the microphone out of view.

@BroonParker Жыл бұрын

Trickier to do when you are filming in situ rather than a film set, but I did notice it as well.