Horace (television play)


Horace is a 1972 television play written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clarke, first broadcast as part of a BBC1 new play series on 21 March 1972.

Plot

Diabetic Horace is mentally impaired and works in a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy Gordon Blackett, who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world.

Television series

The play was later developed as a six-part half-hour series for Yorkshire Television.