Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom’s day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen, ends with a rapprochement with Molly, his earthy wife.

Set in 1965 instead of 1904 as written because of budget constraints. The film was banned in parts of England, but it played for an extended period in the West End of London. It had a limited showing in the United States. Strick used surreal imagery for the stream of consciousness novel.

	
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Short stories by George MacKay Brown, adapted for television by John McGrath

Three short-stories by Orcadian author Brown, adapted to create three short plays, running back-to-back, in an episode lasting just over 90-minutes. It explores the lives of islanders, past and present.

Brown won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and although ultimately unsuccessful he was shortlisted for a Booker Prize for fiction.

Take into consideration that there’s three stories with approx. 10 actors and actresses in each, then add in Scottish drama’s reputation for using the same tried-and-tested faces over and over again. That means, if you’re a Scot over 40, you’re bound to end up spending the evening guessing the other things they were in!

First we have Hannah Gordon, the Social Worker from the previous week’s episode, When the Bough Breaks. Then we have the magnificent Fulton MacKay, with this role being just a couple of years before the Prisoner & Escort Porridge pilot. And there’s Lex McLean’s moronic sidekick Walter Carr, along with a few other Vital Spark crew-members.

This is a good one, but it’s especially good if you’re as Scotch.

A TIME TO KEEP

“A Time to Keep” reflects Brown’s recent conversion five years earlier to Roman Catholicism, which is both reflected in the title and in the spiritual content of the tales.

THE WHALER’S RETURN

“The Whaler’s Return” is a self explanatory one, focusing on a whaler returning to his native Orkney after a lengthy and dangerous expedition.

CELIA

“Celia” portrays a woman who is shutting out the contemporary world, losing herself in an alcohol-fuelled haze which helps her rejects the horrors of Apartheid and the Vietnam War.

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Irvine Welsh adapts three stories from his ‘Acid House’ collection for the screen. In ‘The Granton Star
Cause’, Boab Coyle (Stephen McCole) is happy playing for his local football team and dating girlfriend
Evelyn. When he loses both, however, along with his job and home, he turns to drink – only to meet God
(Maurice Roëves) in a pub. ‘A Soft Touch’ tells the story of Johnny (Kevin McKidd), an easily
manipulated man who loses his girlfriend to violent and psychotic neighbour Larry (Gary McCormack).
In ‘The Acid House’, raver Coco (Ewen Bremner) finds that he has swapped places with Tom, newborn
baby of middle class couple Rory (Martin Clunes) and Jenny, after an acid trip.

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Legendary Scots rock ‘n’ roll outfit The Majestics find themselves in trouble on the eve of their 25th anniversary tour when their singer, Big Jazza, is killed in a car crash. But with the appearance of his younger brother, Danny, their problems appear to be over. If only it was that easy…

Rock and roll mythologises itself as a rejuvenating rebel music, an image embodied by the Rolling Stones, who claim the music keeps them fired up and excited despite their advancing years. However, entry into the ranks of rock and roll originals has failed to bestow the same energising favours on The Majestics, Scotland’s very own (fictional) survivors of the 1960s beat boom.

Tutti Frutti (BBC, 1987) tells the story of the band’s final preparations for an ill-fated jubilee tour. Unfortunately, The Majestics’ lead singer, Big Jazza, has just died and his replacement, his younger look-alike brother Danny McGlone (Robbie Coltrane), is unenthusiastic about fronting a band that is at best a footnote to the history of the 1960s music scene. His disdain for the project is played out in a series of rancorous squabbles with The Majestics’ original members, especially guitarist Vincent Diver (Maurice Roeves), whose pregnant young girlfriend comes on the tour.

John Byrne’s six scripts are finely-tuned pieces of comedy writing that expose his male characters’ inflated egos to toe-curling effect. Their final dispiriting tour of Scotland’s less salubrious clubs and pubs is punctuated by childish backstage squabbling and a series of personal disasters, including the suicide of Diver’s girlfriend and the revelation that she wasn’t pregnant after all. There is also the fractious on-off relationship between McGlone and waitress Suzi Kettles (Emma Thompson) who inadvertently ends up joining the band for their final shows.

The series has numerous strengths, including an excellent cast, a darkly witty script and a near-perfect pastiche of The Majestics on Ready, Steady Go (ITV, 1963-66). There are also several standout comedy moments, such as Big Jazza’s police record inadvertently saving his brother from arrest when Kettles’s violent husband identifies McGlone as his attacker, only to be told that the person whose photograph he’s picked from their volumes of mug shots is dead. However, nothing can save the band from its path of slow self-destruction, which drives their manager Eddie Clockerty (Richard Wilson) to ever-higher levels of frantic despair, much to the frustration of his acerbic secretary/girlfriend.

At its simplest, Tutti Frutti is the story of a disintegrating rock and roll band’s final tour, but what makes the programme such a joy is its deeper focus on a group of failed and delusional men and the women who love and support them despite their obvious failures.

Extras included are an excellent interview with the wonderful John Byrne and a short interview with Emma Thompson

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