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The Wednesday Play: Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It

on BBC One London

by Tony Parker
with Mary Miller as Freda Wills, Ray Smith as Stanley Maxwell, Barry Jackson as John Black, Constance Chapman as Mrs Lawrence

You have to like kids a lot to take other people's on full-time. Mrs. Lawrence is a kind-hearted woman, but someone must be to blame for what is found in her house. The 'Welfare' and the local paper are on the job in a flash. It is a scandal, and it is tidied up. But the calls for help don't stop, and Mrs. Lawrence goes on answering because nobody else does.
Bang on target... an aggressive piece of TV pamphleteering. (Daily Express)
It worked splendidly a terrific sense of immediacy... (Daily Mail)
A scarifying study... (Daily Telegraph)

Contributors

Writer:
Tony Parker
Designer:
Keith Harris
Film Cameraman:
Brian Tufano
Sound Recordist:
Bill Chesneau
Film Editor:
Pam Bosworth
Producer:
Irene Shubik
Director:
John MacKenzie
Freda Wills:
Mary Miller
Stanley Maxwell:
Ray Smith
John Black:
Barry Jackson
Mrs. Lawrence:
Constance Chapman
Policeman:
James Appleby
Casualty Sister:
Barbara New
Casualty nurses:
Janie Booth
Casualty nurses:
Gilly Fraser
Casualty nurses:
Beverley Walding
Doctor:
Shivendra Sinha
P.C. Robertson:
Ben Howard
P.C. Dent:
Frank Jarvis
Mr. Darton:
Edwin Brown
Ted Truelove:
Harry Davis
Ward nurse:
Nina Baden-Semper
Ward Sister:
Jessie Barclay
Mrs. Watts:
Winifred Dennis
Ronald Cape:
Eric Mason
Miss Hamilton:
Edith MacArthur
Jane Evans:
Christine Hargreaves
Betty Lawrence:
Diana Bishop
Miss Hepworth:
Barbara Lott
Mrs. Mills:
Sheila Grant
Valerie Chapman:
Kate Williams
Michael Collins:
Griffith Davies
Katie Nolan:
Eileen Colgan
Joan Percival:
Pauline Collins
Councillor Percival:
John Phillips
Stephanie Ward:
Cleo Sylvestre
Mr. Low:
Femi Euba
Mrs. Low:
Jomoke Debayo
Terry Allen:
Ray Barron
Linda Allen:
Gay Shingleton
Mr. Bancroft:
Royston Tickner
Mrs. Bancroft:
Julie May
Barbara Bancroft:
Julie Booth
Peter Unwin:
Peter Attard
Girl Sandra:
June Williams

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