| Black and Blue | |
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 Title screenshot from episode one | |
| Genre | Drama |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Mark Shivas |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC 2 |
| Release | 14 August (1973-08-14) – 18 September 1973 (1973-09-18) |
Black and Blue is aBBC TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 1973. Its overall title refers to theblack andblue humour of the episodes.
The show consisted of 6 television plays of 50–60 minutes duration, each being separate and self-contained from the others, the only connection between them being the two types of humour.
The first episode was broadcast on 14 August 1973,[1] with the last episode airing on 18 September 1973. The episode "Secrets" waswiped,[2] only surviving because adomestic videotape copy was made from the mastertape by its producer,Mark Shivas.
| No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | "Secrets" | James Cellan Jones | Michael Palin andTerry Jones | 14 August 1973 (1973-08-14)[3] | |
Three employees working at a chocolate factory accidentally fall into a vat of chocolate for the company's 'Secrets' assortment. When sales start to soar, it turns out that British consumers have a taste for cannibalism. | |||||
| 2 | "The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family" | Mark Cullingham | Philip Mackie | 21 August 1973 (1973-08-21)[4] | |
AWardour Street movie tycoon accidentally hires the wrong script-writer to pen a film about the life of Queen Anne and pays him £500,000, and now has to figure out how to get the money back.
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| 3 | "High Kampf" | Michael Apted | Hugh Leonard | 28 August 1973 (1973-08-28)[5] | |
When a wealthy member of a family lays dying in his bed, a bunch of unscrupulous relatives show up and circle him like a pack of vultures waiting for him to die.
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| 4 | "Rust" | Waris Hussein | Julien Mitchell | 4 September 1973 (1973-09-04)[6] | |
When a flu pandemic sweeps over the country and threatens to wipe out civilization, a drug concocted by a British pharmaceutical company might just be the answer, but alas, it does have a side-effect: it renders people impotent.
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| 5 | "Soap Opera in Stockwell" | Tim Aspinall | Michael O'Neill andJeremy Seabrook | 11 September 1973 (1973-09-11)[7] | |
When a possible and accidental baby-snatching occurs in front of a launderette, all hell breaks loose. In this episode, all the women over 35 are played by men.
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| 6 | "Glorious Miles" | Ian MacNaughton | Henry Livings | 18 September 1973 (1973-09-18)[8] | |
A millionaire decides to hire a butler just so he can impress his friends, but the butler thinks he has been hired for a much deadlier and sinister purpose.
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