Alma Mater (Play for Today)

"**Alma Mater**"
"Alma Mater"
Play for Today episode
Episode no.	Series 1; Episode 11
Directed by	James Ferman
Written by	David Hodson
Original air date	7 January 1971
Episode chronology
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"Alma Mater" is the 11th episode of first season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 7 January 1971. "Alma Mater" was written by David Hodson, directed by James Ferman and produced by Irene Shubik.

In the play civil servant Jimmy Nicholson (Ian Carmichael) returns home after a long period working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school, the same school that he himself attended. It is the school's sports day, and old school grudges come flooding back.^[1]

The cast included Max Adrian, Hilda Braid, Nigel Hawthorne, Dinah Sheridan, Anthony Andrews and Christopher Reynalds.^[2]

No recording of this Play for Today is known to survive.^[3]

References

^ "Alma Mater", on TV Cream
^ Christopher Reynalds on the Internet Movie Database
^ "Missing episode in programme Play for Today". lost shows. Retrieved 23 October 2020.

External links

"Alma Mater" at IMDb
"Alma Mater" on the British Film Institute

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[1] "Alma Mater", on TV Cream

[2] Christopher Reynalds on the Internet Movie Database

[3] "Missing episode in programme Play for Today". lost shows. Retrieved 23 October 2020.

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