First And Last - BBC1 Comedy Drama - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Genre

Comedy Drama

Broadcast

1989

Channel

BBC One

Episodes

1

Stars

Joss Ackland, Pat Heywood, Patricia Routledge, Lionel Jeffries, Deborah Findlay, Tom Wilkinson, Laura Davenport, Thomas Wheatley and more

Writer

Michael Frayn

Director

Alan Dossor

Producer

Michael Wearing

Company

Alan Holly has a secret ambition. After a life of suburban rectitude, he sets out one morning from Land's End to walk the length of his native land; a Britain he has never known.

His boots are new, his health uncertain, he has not walked more than a dozen miles in his life. His progress is overseen by far flung family and friends with mixed feelings of loyalty, exasperation and growing anxiety. As the journey assumes epic proportions, Alan's arbitrary tenacity and courage has a decisive impact on the lives of those he meets and the family he has left behind.

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Production

Studio

Picture

Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Tuesday 12th December 1989 at 9:30pm on BBC One

Episode length

140 minutes