The Wednesday Play: Cathy Come Home (1966)
Season 6, Episode 3
9/10
Ground-breaking, but disturbing to watch.
21 August 2022
Everything about the drama has already been mentioned in previous reviews, but after 66 years this still packs a real punch.

It is not comfortable viewing, this has a lot to do with the performances of Carol White and Ray Brooks as an ordinary likeable couple who find themselves in dire straits through no fault of their own.

The drama focuses on the basic flaws in the housing system and the consequences on society for those with very little.

This must have been one of the first to use the docu-drama style. If it hadn't been for the occasional familiar face one might be forgiven for thinking it was real.
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