60 minutes
12/3/1982
Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. Here he is visited by his daughters Val and Molly, and Molly's husband Harold, and looked after by the ward's two male nurses, Vic and Donald, who are in competition for a promotion. Donald needs the money as he and his girlfriend are trying to buy a house but are having difficulty arranging a mortgage. From the window at which he sits, Mr Wyman can see a wall. He repeatedly pesters Donald with questions about what is on the other side. Donald constructs a fantasy of the future he dreams of with his girlfriend: a house and garden inhabited by a married couple.
John Barrett
as Mr. Wyman
David Threlfall
as Donald
Maureen Lipman
as Val
Bernard Gallagher
as Harold
David Foxxe
as Vic
Jeanne Doree
as Alice
Pat Heywood
as Molly
Anna Quayle
as Pam
Isabelle Lucas
as Matron
Leslie Pitt
as Mr Metcalf
Charles Simon
as Ernest
Molly Veness
as Hannah
Jack Le White
as Mr. Riscoe
Ernest C. Jennings
as Albert
Beatrice Shaw
as Connie
Gladys Spencer
as Mrs. Muschamp
Geoffrey Staines
as Kevin
Michael Worsley
as Nurse