Funny Farm (play)

Funny Farm' is a 1975 television play written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clarke, broadcast as part of BBC 1's Play for Today series on 27 February 1975 (91 mins).

Alan Wellbeck (Tim Preece) is a nurse in a mental hospital. His day-to-day struggles with personal feelings and troubled patients provide humour and pathos against the backdrop of a public institution.

Allan Surtees and Bernard Severn also featured in this production.

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)

Directorial works of Alan Clarke

Horace Penda's Fen Funny Farm Scum (1977) Scum (1979) Made in Britain Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire Rita, Sue and Bob Too Elephant The Firm

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