The Wednesday Play: Son of Man (1969)

Country of Origin: UK
Date of Broadcast: 16 April 1969
Episode Running Time: 90 mins
Format: black and white
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC-TV
Producer: Graeme McDonald

SCRIPT
Script: Dennis Potter
Story Editor: Shaun MacLoughlin

DIRECTION
Director: Gareth Davies

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting: Robert Wright

SOUND
Sound: Bryan Forgham

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Sandra Hurll
Costumes: Dinah Collin

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Spencer Chapman

CAST
Colin Blakely (Jesus Christ)
Robert Hardy (Pontius Pilate)
Bernard Hepton (Caiaphas)
Brian Blessed (Peter)
Edward Hardwicke (Judas Iscariot)
Godfrey Quigley (Roman commander)
Patricia Lawrence (Procla)
Gawn Grainger (Andrew)
Wendy Allnutt (Ruth)
Clive Graham (centurion)
Brian Spink (zealot)
Robin Chadwick (young officer)
Godfrey James, Eric Mason (soldiers)
Hugh Futcher, Raymond Witch, Edmund Bailey (hecklers)
Colin Rix (James)
Walter Hall (Philip)
Keith Campbell, Edward Bennett (priests)
Alan Lawrence (moneychanger)
Paul Prescott (man in crowd)
George Desmond (leper)
Polly Murch (woman possessed)
Peter Beton (beaten Samaritan)
David Cannon (beggar)
Roy Stewart, Dinny Powell (boxers)
The Carmel College Choir

1969
April
16: UK - television broadcast (on BBC)

June
4: UK - television broadcast (on BBC)

1987
July
28: UK - television broadcast (on BBC)

BOOKS

Fight and Kick and Bite: The Life and Work of Dennis Potter p.336
credits

KEYWORDS

jesus christ; biblical; possession