Jack Rosenthal Book

Introduction 1

1 The beginnings 14

Coronation Street (1961-69)

2 Little England 33

Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar (1968)

Another Sunday and Sweet FA (1972)

There'll Almost Always be an England (1974)

Mr Ellis Versus the People (1974)

3 Men at work 58

The Dustbinmen (1969-70)

The Knowledge (1979)

London's Burning (1986)

4 Love stories 84

The Lovers (1970)

Sadie, It's Cold Outside (1975)

Wide-Eyed and Legless (1993)

5 Structure and plot 112

Spend, Spend, Spend (1977)

The Chain (1984)

Moving Story (1994)

Bag Lady (1989)

6 Television satire in 1976 and 2005 134

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

7 Versions of autobiography 147

P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982)

Bye, Bye, Baby (1992)

Eskimo Day (1996)

Cold Enough for Snow (1997)

8 Anglo-Jewish plays 165

The Evacuees (1975)

Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976)

Appendix List of Television Programmes

Select Bibliography

Index