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We Never Do What They Want

May 16, 1978 · 56m
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An everyday story of Alternative Society folk, beginning in 1969. It traced the developing relationship of three people from then until present 1978. Frank, a radical social worker just out of mental hospital after a nervous breakdown, was being nursed back to health by Linda, a hairdresser, in the absence of his 'girl friend. Joanna, on a social work project. By the second scene. Frank and Linda were married with a baby daughter, and Frank had opted for a cushy teaching job in a middle class school and even betrayed his Left-wing idealism to the point of joining the Labour Party.

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Paola Dionisotti
Joanne
Louise Hall-Taylor
Linda
Harry Meacher
Harry
Simon Rouse
Frank
Directed by Moira Armstrong

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Original language
EN
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Thames Television
Country
US
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