'Sex and Violence' by Steward Douglass

Housewives across the country are becoming united in a call for a return to decency, rallying against the sex and violence inherent in society’s media. When a commission headed by Lord Purvis is set up to decide if the current laws concerning these matters need tightening up, the minister appoints Anne as one of the members of the enquiry. But when she attends a performance of the controversial new play ‘Do It’ as part of her research, Anne is attacked by an angry mob…


John Paul (Doctor Spencer Quist), John Barron (The Minister), Elizabeth Weaver (Doctor Anne Tarrant), John Brown (Commander Neil Stafford), Joby Blanshard (Colin Bradley), Vivian Sherrard (Barbara Mason), Nicholas Selby (Arthur Ballantyne), June Brown (Mrs. Catchpole), Donald Eccles (Lord Purvis), Bernard Horsfall (Steven Granger), Angela Crow (Mrs. Hastings), Noel Dyson (Mrs. Angela Cressy), Brian Wilde (Professor Faibairn), Llewellyn Rees (The Rev. Garrison), Christopher Chittell (Dick Burns), Queenie Watts (Demonstrator), Sebastian Graham-Jones (Young Man), Richard Vanstone, John Hood, Paul Nemeer (Stewards)

Directed by Darrol Blake
Produced by Terence Dudley

TX:
17th July, 1972 @ 9.20pm - 10.10pm

Notes:
*Featuring Doctor Spencer Quist, Colin Bradley, Doctor Anne Tarrant, Commander Neil Stafford, and Barbara Mason

*This episode was never transmitted by the BBC, as it featured actual footage of a military execution

*Although to date it has never been shown on the BBC, the episode was transmitted on U.K. Gold in 1995