A miser learns the price of love when 75 minutes wrecks your entire afternoon.
TV play by Bernard Kops. Moss is a miser whose only love is his grandson. Then tragedy strikes and Moss is "reborn".
Acting
Warren Mitchell's miser-to-broken-man arc.
Direction
Philip Saville's claustrophobic 1970s TV intensity.
Director
Philip Saville
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bernard Kops adapted this from his own stage play, written in a furious two-week burst after his father's death.
Part of BBC's 'Play for Today' golden age—when 8 million people regularly watched original single dramas about working-class despair.
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