The Fishing Party
- Episode aired Jun 1, 1972
- 57m
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Three miners plan a weekend fishing.Three miners plan a weekend fishing.Three miners plan a weekend fishing.
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Remarkably memorable
It's a remarkable testimony to a play that over thirty years later, whenever I think of great television plays, this is the first one that comes to my mind. It's really a simple tale of innocents abroad, with a touch of comedy of manners.A group of Northern English miners take a fishing holiday on which little goes right, from a snobbish landlady who resents their presence in the guest house to their discovering that the sea isn't really their element.
So it sounds as if it should have been a pleasant but throwaway item, but it has something that -- for me at least -- makes it stick. And I think it has to be the accuracy of the character writing. I grew up in an industrial Northern English town, and I recognised these characters. And I reckon that one of the hardest things in writing is to make good characters interesting -- interesting villains are so much easier. The Fishing Party succeeds with a vengeance; the miners have a raw, earthy goodness, holy fools that all the (admittedly petty) wickedness and adversity around them just passes by, but are never anything less than real.
Pass the brown sauce!
So it sounds as if it should have been a pleasant but throwaway item, but it has something that -- for me at least -- makes it stick. And I think it has to be the accuracy of the character writing. I grew up in an industrial Northern English town, and I recognised these characters. And I reckon that one of the hardest things in writing is to make good characters interesting -- interesting villains are so much easier. The Fishing Party succeeds with a vengeance; the miners have a raw, earthy goodness, holy fools that all the (admittedly petty) wickedness and adversity around them just passes by, but are never anything less than real.
Pass the brown sauce!
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- Jul 9, 2006
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