It Could Happen to Anybody
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54 minutes
8/14/1984
Overview
"It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander." In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean McLeod attempts to hold her family together. But after a particularly severe beating she decides to fight back.
Cast List
Ann Scott-Jones
as Jean MacLeod
Joseph Brady
as Jim McLeod
William McBain
as John McLeod
Joe Mullaney
as Willy McLeod
Samuel Ovens
as Hughie McLeod
Jennifer Carey
as Moira MacLeod
Irene Sunters
as Big Bessie
Ian McNicol
as Pluke
Frank Wylie
as Det Sgt Brady
Jake D'Arcy
as Det Con Newman
Doreen Keogh
as Sister Patricia
Ron Donachie
as Big Lick
Peter Raffan
as Bobby Cannon
Joan Scott
as Mrs. Cannon
Harriet Buchan
as Panel chairwoman
Ron Paterson
as Panel member
Dorothy Anne Stiven
as Ward sister
A.S. Ross
as Policeman