Play for Today: Season 5, Episode 7Eleanor (12 Dec. 1974)
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Eleanor
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Colin Douglas | ... |
Father
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Doreen Mantle | ... |
Mother
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Maureen Pryor | ... |
Miss Whitehead
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Yvonne Antrobus | ... |
Miss Homber
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Elaine Mitchell | ... |
Miss Haskins
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Det.-Sgt. Gregg
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Martin Boddey | ... | |
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Ray Burdis | ... |
Danny Price
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Nula Conwell | ... |
Liz Jones
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George Balentine | ... |
Photographer
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Caroline North | ... |
Eileen Reid
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Kim Taylforth | ... |
Susie Crumm
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Gillian Taylforth | ... |
Mavis
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Lilian Rostkowska | ... |
Thelma
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This is an effective story of bullying, and a withdrawn child who yearns for something different -- in her case, for the freedom symbolised by her memories of the seaside. Background characters who at first seem one-dimensional take on additional depths as the crisis breaks.
However, the BFI transfer I saw at the Mediatheque did seem to end very abruptly (on a few seconds' irresolute shot of Eleanor's parents in their kitchen just after we see her bag go in the bin), and I did wonder if the version originally transmitted contained a more conclusive ending. The running time was listed at circa sixty-five minutes whereas the digital transfer only seemed to run to fifty-something minutes long.
As it stands, we never really find out what happens to any of the protagonists...