Category: The Golden Road

Pat Hooker: Writing for television in the 1970s

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Post date December 4, 2015
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Forgotten screenwriter, Pat Hooker, had a number of scripts produced for British television in the 1970s, mainly in a range of popular series.

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Armchair Theatre: The Golden Road (ITV/ Thames, 30 October 1973)

Post author By billysmart
Post date February 20, 2015
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Even when you work as an assiduous researcher of television drama history, it’s rare that you make a genuinely major discovery, but watching Patricia Hooker’s 1973 Armchair Theatre play, ‘The Golden Road’ (to be screened at BFI Southbank on February 23 as part of our ‘TV’s Forgotten Dramas’ season), I had the tremendously exciting sensation […]