... The Bankrupt Play for Today, BBC-1, November 27 by Michael Frostick WHEN John Clements elected to revive one of Christopher Fry's plays at Chichester this year the pundits were quick to point out that although we might hugely enjoy it, it was in fact ...

... for questionable reasons, tried to get himself declared bankrupt did not have quite enough guts or incident to justify its 50 minutes. The play was a study of fail ure and setting the bankrupt in his quite handsome home, now stripped of furniture, morosely ...

... sums of money. Unable to meet their ultimatums, Walsh is declared a bankrupt and put in the hands of a pretty blonde trustee (Gcraldinc Alexander), a quirk of fate peculiar to TV bankrupts, I would guess. Not a betting man, I'd wager my life savings on the ...

... possible partnership in MGM TV. Last year Parretti took control of the north Italian network, Odeon TV, but the station went bankrupt several months later. ...

... necessary to incorporate phrases like bloody puff and Half pissed in a family comedy show It was doubly unfortunate that such a bankrupt idea should have chosen as the vehicle for Bob Todd to make his debut in a starring role. For if anyone deserved something ...

... of the first episode. Piers Garfield Ward, played by Simon Shepherd, returns with a new haircut to take over his father's bankrupt estate. His mother expects him to provide the solutions to the impossible which forces him to resort to his old rival, Dex ...

... selected the letters s for sermon and r for reformation. Not that he had divine guidance because the wheel then spun to Bankrupt. The prizes are what it is all about, and it is their value rather than entertain ment value that shore up the enterprise ...

... order to do this more effectively he should have let us see a little more into the character of Alec Waterman, the ex-bankrupt jailbird, competently played by Ronald Lewis. Keeping the audience in sus pense about the hero's true inten tions was good ...

... mother-in-law. On top of all this emotion, corruption on the Council was leading Sarah fast to the bankruptcy court, and a bankrupt may not sit on a Council. A concentrated episode to start the new series, but in spite of some too-convenient plot twists ...

... order of Thatchers. For which read freemasonry. Trades unions have gone, the police have been privatised, the Labour Party is bankrupt, and there is a frontier between affluent South and impoverished North. The computer rules. One of the inmates of the Keith ...

... The decor did little to help either. The sets appeared spar tan and uninhabited. I also wondered why Sid's pub hadn't gone bankrupt long before the action of the play began. The only clientele there ever seemed to be were Barry and Anne. Under the circumstances ...

... earth. Everyone therefore could have gas in their back gardens and could put people like Arthur Scargill out of a job and bankrupt oil tycoons, says Phillip Geddes. Making A Meal Of It is the next programme in the series and looks at organic food and ...