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Tender is the Night: 1

on BBC Two England

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Screenplay in six parts by Dennis Potter
Starring Peter Strauss, Mary Steenburgen
Special guest appearance Edward Asner

1917. Dick Diver is an American doctor studying in Switzerland. On the day he leaves to join the army, he meets heiress Nicole Warren who is young, beautiful and strange.

(Shown again on Thursday at 10.0pm)
Feature: page 98 and Woddis On: page 93
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Author:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Screenplay:
Dennis Potter
Original Music:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Film Editor:
Tariq Anwar
Photographed by:
Ken Westbury
Designer:
Derek Dodd
Executive Producer:
Jonathan Powell
Producer:
Betty Willingale
Director:
Robert Knights
Dick Diver:
Peter Strauss
Nicole Warren:
Mary Steenburgen
Devereux Warren:
Edward Asner
Franz Gregorovius:
Jurgen Brugger
Dr Dohmler:
Erwin Kohlund
Wounded soldier:
Richard Linford
Singing soldier:
Jean Alonge
Major in train:
Keith Edwards
Spanish woman patient:
Rosario Serrano
Baby Warren:
Kate Harper
Conte di Marmora:
Francois Guetary

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