A 60-minute psychological threesome where everyone's the therapist and no one's cured.
Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leafer? Or are they using Dr Leafer as a means of communicating with each other?
Acting
Bennett and Mortimer's toxic chemistry—cruelty as foreplay.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp you'll need stitches. No wasted syllables.
Direction
Reid traps you in rooms where no one leaves unchanged.
Director
Alastair Reid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fulton Mackay filmed this between Porridge seasons—his Leafer is basically Fletcher's evil twin with a psychology degree.
This Play for Today installment captures 1970s British TV's obsession with middle-class marriage as slow-motion car crash.
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