UK, 5 November 1970
65m
videotape, colour, 4:3
mono, English
Series: Play for Today (1970-1984) – series 1, episode 4
A British fantasy television play written by Dennis Potter and directed by Gareth Davies.
Plot Summary
A stranger arrives at the home of a bored suburban housewife claiming to be an angel. Is he for real? Are the strange things that happen in the neighbourhood down to his celestial intervention?
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Gareth Davies
BBC
Produced by: Graeme McDonald
Written by: Dennis Potter
Script Editor: Ann Scott
Music by: Joseph Horovitz
Cast
Tom Bell (Michael Biddle)
Christine Hargreaves (Cynthia Nicholls)
Susan Richards (Mrs Cawser)
Erik Chitty (Mr Cawser)
Barrie Cookson (Richard Nicholls)
Godfrey James (postman)
Beryl Cooke (storyteller)
John Glyn-Jones (clergyman)
Kenneth Ives (interviewer)
Denise Buckley (Danish girl)
Dorothea Rundle (old lady)
Matthew Davies (Timothy)
