The Bass Player and the Blonde

The Bass Player and the Blonde was a television play in the ITV Playhouse series, first broadcast 14 June 1977. It was followed up with a three-part serial with the episodes given the names of musical terms: Rondo (8 August 1978), Allegro (15 August 1978), and Andante (22 August 1978). In the play and the series, George Mangham, a middle aged, debt ridden bass player in a Jazz band, falls in love with the wealthy and much younger blonde singer Terry, much to the distress of her father.^[1]

Credits[]

• Producer/Director Dennis Vance
• Production Company ATV
• Screenplay Roy Clarke (also Ian Lindsay and Phil Redmond)
• Designer Michael Eve

Cast[]

• Edward Woodward as George Mangham
• Jane Wymark as Terry
• Ronald Fraser as Charlie
• Jeremy Sinden as Nigel
• Alfie Bass as the Pawnbroker
• Sam Kydd as Max
• Betty McDowall as Beth
• George Sewell as the Drummer

References[]

External links[]

• "ITV Playhouse" The Bass Player and the Blonde (1977)
• BFI - Film & TV Database - The BASS PLAYER AND THE BLONDE (1977)

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