First filmed theatrically in 1962, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final novel, TENDER IS THE NIGHT, was given a lavish (seven million dollars) treatment in this British-Australian-American miniseries version. Set in Europe’s waning days of the Roaring Twenties, the plot focused upon the tempestuous marriage between jaded psychiatrist Dick Diver (Peter Strauss) and the beautiful, schizophrenic socialite Nicole Warren (Mary Steenburgen). An international cast did an excellent job impersonating the “Lost Generation” for which Fitzgerald was the principal spokesman (the author was himself all but burned out by the time the original novel was published, and his desperation oozes through every page). The script, by the iconoclastic Dennis Potter (PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, THE SINGING DETECTIVE), was based upon the 1951 “chronologically re-edited” version of the novel prepared by Malcolm Cowley. First broadcast by Britain’s BBC2 in six 55-minute installments from September 23 to October 28, 1985, TENDER IS THE NIGHT subsequently aired in a five-part version (albeit unedited) over America’s Showtime network from October 27 to November 26, 1985. (All Movie Guide)

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A thoroughly superb four-part comedy-drama series, The History Man is considered a pivotal literary and television work and one of the most fondly-remembered of all Malcolm Bradbury’s output.

Bradbury had always prided himself on stories concerning, criticising and critiquing academic culture and the proliferation of “new” university campuses which were dotted across the United Kingdom at the time. The History Man featured one such “new” educational establishment, the University of Watermouth, as the platform for the tale of Barbara and Howard Kirk (Geraldine James and Anthony Sher), an exploration of their very modern marriage and considerably radical political views.

However, this was essentially the starting-point of the series, which branched out into an acerbic observation of the complexities of academic life, ranging from tedious meetings to bureaucratic nightmares, bizarre workplace relations to corruption at its height and disruption at its base. An attractive and compelling story of radical student life, the Machiavellian powers-that-be within student life and within the educational organisation itself, the essential dramatic drive manisfested itself through Howard Kirk, a sociology lecturer at Watermouth not averse to using the tools of his trade (namely sex and politics) to secure his own position within the establishment and, indeed, further it to some extent.
He lectures students to become far more radical and less complacent, whilst all the time working tirelessly to ensure his own position remains unchanged.

The series became an examination on the abuses and power within an organisation fundamentally concerned with ridiculous micro-management (as portrayed in tedious meetings about nothing in particular), and Kirk soon finds himself fighting for his own survival and using his students, his political rhetoric and his sexual magnetism to ensure that he emerges triumphant in a power struggle with his back-biting colleagues.

The novel upon which the series was based, which earned Bradbury the Heinemann Award alongside the television commission, proved a lengthy read of purple prose (of which the writer himself was critically acclaimed), was and still is considered the definitive article, yet under the adaptation of Christopher Hampton, the production of experienced hand Michael Wearing and directorial expertise of Robert Knights, the series proved to be one of BBC Television’s most high-profile products throughout the early 1980s.

The series boasted notable supporting performances from the likes of Isla Blair, Laura Davenport, Maggie Steed, Miriam Margolyes, Zienia Merton and Peter Hugo Daly. The series was globally exported, but the limit of its commercial release was Malcolm Bradbury’s best-selling novel upon which the series was based. The History Man series has never been commercially available in any format.

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An account of the colourful life of the infamous British fascist Oswald Mosley, concentrating on the period between the end of WW1 and his imprisonment at the beginning of WW2.

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