Play for Today · SEASON 12
Home Sweet Home
Episode 19 · 1982-03-16
- Drama
Episode overview
Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner. Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for BBC TV, 'about postmen, parenthood, social workers and sex.' It was Leigh's second collaboration with Play for Today producer Louis Marks, and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, and with composer Carl Davis—the music score featured a quartet of basses. The film was shot on location in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
88 minutes
Season 12 episodes
1. Country1981-10-20
2. London Is Drowning1981-10-27
3. A Room for the Winter1981-11-03
4. No Visible Scar1981-11-17
5. Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain1981-11-24
6. Protest1981-12-01
7. United Kingdom1981-12-08
8. PQ171981-12-15
9. The Factory1981-12-22
10. England's Green and Pleasant Land1982-01-05
11. A Cotswold Death1982-01-12
12. Under the Skin1982-01-19
13. Commitments1982-01-26
14. Life After Death1982-02-02
15. The Silly Season1982-02-09
16. Too Late to Talk to Billy1982-02-16
17. Willie's Last Stand1982-02-23
18. Tishoo1982-03-09
19. Home Sweet Home1982-03-16
20. A Sudden Wrench1982-03-23
21. Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going1982-03-30
22. Whistling Wally1982-04-06
