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[tree_and_leaf]

The first gay TV drama, rediscovered?

It's an ITV television play, set in the South of the US, immediately before the Civil War. It's said to hold up well to a modern audience, though there is no word on whether the accents would cause American viewers to wince...

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[sir_guinglain]

Though in the late 1950s and early and mid-1960s Granada had competition in the ground-breaking stakes from ABC, whose single plays have received much more attention from television historians than any other ITV company's. Granada were somewhat hobbled until 1968 because they were only a weekday company and didn't have access to the prestigious and lucrative weekend slots. I hope that attention to South leads to Granada's early dramatic output being reevaluated and more titles discovered and indeed released on DVD, as much of ABC's Armchair Theatre has been.