Armchair Theatre: Late Summer

In 2017, Forgotten Television Drama launched a series of DVDs in conjunction with the DVD distributor Network. Following the untimely death of Network’s Managing Director Tim Beddows and the subsequent closure of the company, we are now making available all the viewing notes that accompanied our releases. Late Summer (Armchair Theatre, ABC, 07 September 1963). Written by Alexander Baron, produced by Leonard White and directed by Reginald Collin. Interviewed about Armchair Theatre in 1960, author Alexander Baron (1917-99) explained his credo as a writer: ‘I like to delve around in every corner of life. Some things I find are nice and other things are nasty. But unsatisfactory lives and situations are every bit as much the business of the writer as the happy ones.’ Late Summer, the story of the stressful relationship between a middle-aged woman and a much younger man, is a fine example of these preoccupations, realised through the unflinching intensity and closeness of television drama.…