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Status
Released
Release
1987
Runtime
2h
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth television film version of this play by J.B. Priestley made by the BBC.
15 Cast Members
Patricia Routledge
Maria Helliwell
Peter Vaughan
Alderman Joseph Helliwell
Prunella Scales
Annie Parker
Timothy West
Councillor Albert Parker
Rosemary Leach
Clara Soppitt
Bernard Cribbins
Herbert Soppitt
Tessa Peake-Jones
Nancy Holmes
Sue Devaney
Ruby Birtle
Patrick Pearson
Gerald Forbes
Liz Smith
Mrs Northrop
Gawn Grainger
Fred Dyson
Joss Ackland
Henry Ormonroyd
Patsy Rowlands
Lottie Grady
Roger Brierley
Rev. Clement Mercer
Colin Douglas
Mayor of Cleckleywyke
