A 30-minute fever dream where punk legend Toyah Willcox chases fame through a BBC time portal.
'I want to be so famous that I'm a household name all over the world.' In her dreams Sue finds a way to sing on Top of the Tops. An episode of the BBC drama series Second City Firsts.
Acting
Toyah Willcox's raw, hungry desperation before she became punk royalty.
Direction
Tony Bicât blurs reality and fantasy in cramped '70s TV style.
Director
Tony Bicât
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Toyah Willcox recorded her actual debut single just months after this aired—art imitated life fast.
Part of BBC's 'Second City Firsts,' a radical 1970s series giving regional working-class stories national airtime—rare then, unheard of now.
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