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on BBC Two England

David Edgar 's first play for TV, cast and filmed in America, starring Griffin Dunne John Mahoney
Republican senator
Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky in rehearsals is Michael Tyne , ex-Democrat turned Republican. But Tyne is alarmed by an unexpected twist in the Partin campaign and reacts in devastating fashion.
Dunne starred in An American
Werewolf in London and Mahoney was in Moonstruck.
Producer Chris Parr
Director Simon Curtis
0 STEREO; TELETEXTSUBTITLES: p 888 ● DRAMA: page 4

Contributors

Unknown:
David Edgar
Unknown:
Griffin Dunne
Unknown:
John Mahoney
Unknown:
Walter Partin
Unknown:
Philip Kautsky
Unknown:
Michael Tyne
Producer:
Chris Parr
Director:
Simon Curtis
Michael Tyne:
Griffin Dunne
Walter Partin:
John Mahoney
Bob D'Avanzo:
Ron Vawter
Joanne Matheson:
Lisa Arrindell
Philip Kautsky:
Peter Gallagher
Bob Rutherford:
Mason Adams
Teddy Weinfeld:
Ron Rifkin
Blair Bennett:
Christine Baranski
Source: Radio Times

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