Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first-ever critical work on Jack Rosenthal, the highly regarded BAFTA-winning British television dramatist. His career began with Coronation Street in the 1960s and he became famous for such plays as The Knowledge, The Chain, Spend, Spend, Spend and Bar Mitzvah Boy, as well as the pilot for the series London’s Burning.
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Coronation Street: The beginnings
2. Little England: Your Name’s Not God, It’s Edgar (1968), Another Sunday and Sweet FA (1972), There’ll Almost Always be an England (1974), Mr Ellis Versus the People (1974)
3. Men at work: The Dustbinmen (1969-70), The Knowledge (1979), London’s Burning (1986)
4. Love stories: The Lovers (1970), Sadie, It’s Cold Outside (1975), Wide-Eyed and Legless (1993)
5. Structure and plot: Spend, Spend, Spend (1977), The Chain (1985), Moving Story (1994) and Bag Lady (1989)
6. Ready When You Are, Mr McGill: television satire in 1976 and 2003
7. Versions of autobiography: P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982); Bye, Bye, Baby (1992); Eskimo Day (1996); Cold Enough for Snow (1997)
8. Anglo-Jewish plays: The Evacuees (1975) and Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976)
Bibliography and List of Television Programmes
Index
