A village cricket team moonlighting as eco-terrorists? Sticky wicket indeed.
1997: A village cricket team (complete with computerised Wisden Almanac with the voice of Brian Johnson) is suspected of moonlighting as a private guerilla arm, fighting the Forestry Commission.
Acting
Anne Raitt's deadpan village revolutionary energy is unmatched.
Production
That talking Wisden computer is peak 1982 BBC prop department.
Writing
Forestry Commission as villain = uniquely British paranoia.
Director
Michael Barlow
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Michael Barlow directed only this and one other film before vanishing into television obscurity.
This captures a very specific 1980s BBC2 slot energy—aired once at 11pm, remembered by twelve people.
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