NET Playhouse; Lay Down Your Arms
- Series
- NET Playhouse
- Episode
- Lay Down Your Arms
- Producing Organization
- London Weekend Television (Firm)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/516-p55db7ws3x
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- Description
- Episode Description
- The military sustains a heavy lampooning in this British-made comedy about an awkward young genius who is drafted and assigned to British intelligence as a language translator. The time is 1956, and fighting is about to break out in the Middle East over Egypts bid to nationalize the Suez Canal. Back in England, Robert Hawk serious, sensitive, backward in his relationships, especially with women, and with an IQ of 165 reports to the foreign office to work as a Russian language clerk. Within a short time he is miserable. He despises his co-workers and they in turn consider him strange. And even worse, his attempts to impress his parents and relatives with his important position are to no avail they refuse to take him seriously. As the Middle East trouble erupts, emotional pressures on Hawk force him to take drastic action. He decides to prove his importance by taking top secret documents out of the office to show his brother. Lay Down Your Arms is a presentation of NET Division, Educational Broadcasting Corporation, produced by London Weekend Television. Written by Dennis Potter. Producer: Kenneth Trodd. Director: Christopher Morahan. NET Playhouse executive producer: Jac Venza. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Episode Description
- 90 minute piece, produced by London Weekend Television and initially schedule to be distributed by NET in 1971. It was originally shot in color. The work was scheduled to broadcast as episode 221 of NET Playhouse on January 7, 1971; however, due to technical difficulties they had to replace it with Volpone.
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Drama
- Media type
- other
- Credits
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Actor: Warner, John
Actor: Armitage, Graham
Actor: Hughes, Elizabeth
Actor: Blanshard, Joby
Actor: Wayne, Ken
Actor: Lister, Renny
Actor: Cellier, Peter
Actor: Caunter, Tony
Actor: McGuire, Tucker
Actor: Simmonds, Nicholas
Actor: Jones, Julia
Actor: Trolley, Leonard
Actor: Hardy, Tim
Actor: Foley, John
Actor: Cashman, Michael
Actor: Bloomfield, John
Actor: McMurray, Therese
Actor: Stamp, Will
Actor: Layton, George
Actor: Cairncross, James
Actor: Levene, John
Actor: Webb, David
Director: Morahan, Christopher
Producer: Venza, Jac
Producer: Trodd, Kenneth
Producing Organization: London Weekend Television (Firm)
Writer: Potter, Dennis
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- Citations
- Chicago: “NET Playhouse; Lay Down Your Arms,” American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 28, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-p55db7ws3x.
- MLA: “NET Playhouse; Lay Down Your Arms.” American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 28, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-p55db7ws3x>.
- APA: NET Playhouse; Lay Down Your Arms. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-p55db7ws3x