Alma Mater (play)

Alma Mater was a BBC Play for Today which was originally broadcast on 7 January 1971 and which was written by David Hodson. It was episode 11 in Season 1.^[1]

In the play civil servant Jimmy Nicholson (Ian Carmichael) returns home after a long period working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school, the same school where he himself attended. It is the school's sports day, and old school grudges come flooding back.^[2]

The cast included Max Adrian, Hilda Braid, Nigel Hawthorne, Dinah Sheridan, Anthony Andrews and Christopher Reynalds.^[3]

No recording of this Play for Today is known to survive.^[4]

References

↑ Alma Mater, on Internet Movie Database
↑ Alma Mater, on TV Cream
↑ Christopher Reynalds on the Internet Movie Database
↑ "Missing episode in programme Play for Today, lostshows.com

External links

The Play for Today series

Robin Redbreast (1970)
Alma Mater (1971)
Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971)
Evelyn (1971)
The Foxtrot (1971)
Traitor (1971)
Home (1972)
Horace (1972)
Hard Labour (1973)
Penda's Fen (1974)
The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil (1974)
The Evacuees (1975)
Funny Farm (1975)
Gangsters (1975)
Just Another Saturday (1975)
Rumpole of the Bailey (1975)
Double Dare (1976)
Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976)
Nuts in May (1976)
Abigail's Party (1977)
Spend, Spend, Spend (1977)
The Price of Coal (1977)
The Spongers (1978)
Licking Hitler (1978)
Red Shift (1978)
The After-Dinner Joke (1978)
Our Day Out (1978)
Blue Remembered Hills (1979)
Comedians (1979)
Just a Boys' Game (1979)
The Black Stuff (1980)
The Imitation Game (1980)
The Flipside of Dominick Hide (1980)
Another Flip For Dominick (1982)
Z for Zachariah (1984)
Brimstone and Treacle (1987, completed 1976)
Scum (1991, completed 1977)

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