Whilst flares were widening, the Stones, Rolling (and rocking), a gang of Pythons amusing us and Dad's Army were on Parade, these great vignettes of contemporary drama were performed, cheaply, but effectively.
The issues of prejudice, perception and fairness are paramount in these three significant epistles. Cyril Shaps, a great actor, whose son went on to become Head of ITV, plays a pensioner mugged in a dark alley by two black men. The question is who did it? These - or others?
Did the community police constable, eight years on the beat in a multi-racial part of Fulchester act fairly and dispassionately? Could the two (slightly older looking, supposedly late teenage youths), both black but poles apart academically, socially and politically, one a black power student activist, the other working in a laundry, really mug Arthur?
It's quite surprising, really, that they both attend the same club, given their significant differences. Or maybe the writer, Paul Wheeler is just showing that two young black guys can be completely different?
In the third episode, we meet the model, Miss Brown, who the student is going out with, she provides an alibi and gives a feisty performance in the witness box.
It's such a shame these dramas are nowhere to be found in contemporary viewing. We have to put up with soaps, predominantly and primarily all froth and suds...
I'll leave you to watch to the end to hear the verdict. Well worth watching, too.
The issues of prejudice, perception and fairness are paramount in these three significant epistles. Cyril Shaps, a great actor, whose son went on to become Head of ITV, plays a pensioner mugged in a dark alley by two black men. The question is who did it? These - or others?
Did the community police constable, eight years on the beat in a multi-racial part of Fulchester act fairly and dispassionately? Could the two (slightly older looking, supposedly late teenage youths), both black but poles apart academically, socially and politically, one a black power student activist, the other working in a laundry, really mug Arthur?
It's quite surprising, really, that they both attend the same club, given their significant differences. Or maybe the writer, Paul Wheeler is just showing that two young black guys can be completely different?
In the third episode, we meet the model, Miss Brown, who the student is going out with, she provides an alibi and gives a feisty performance in the witness box.
It's such a shame these dramas are nowhere to be found in contemporary viewing. We have to put up with soaps, predominantly and primarily all froth and suds...
I'll leave you to watch to the end to hear the verdict. Well worth watching, too.