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Play for Today: Kate the Good Neighbour (1980)
I'm very seldom moved to tears but...
I saw this on its first transmission, and again when it was repeated a few years later. I assume therefore that there must be a copy somewhere in the bowels of the BBC. I was born in 1948, and lived through the whole development of 'The Wednesday Play' and then,as it became,'Play for Today'.Some work was obviously 'wiped' in the early days - shades of silents being melted down for silver content -we never learn,do we?.However, I'm pretty sure that a copy of this must still exist.Of all the TV films I saw in that golden age, this was the most moving.The term 'masterpiece' is too often used and in our age of hyperbole one I hesitate to use - not in this case,however. Come on BBC....what DOES survive from this period? Either repeat this or issue a DVD.