Rolling Home

Overview

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.

Directed by Piers Haggard

Top cast

John Barrett

Mr. Wyman

David Threlfall

Donald

Maureen Lipman

Val

Bernard Gallagher

Harold

D

David Foxxe

Vic

J

Jeanne Doree

Alice

Pat Heywood

Molly

Anna Quayle

Pam

I

Isabelle Lucas

Matron

L

Leslie Pitt

Mr Metcalf

C

Charles Simon

Ernest

M

Molly Veness

Hannah

J

Jack Le White

Mr. Riscoe

E

Ernest C. Jennings

Albert

B

Beatrice Shaw

Connie

G

Gladys Spencer

Mrs. Muschamp

G

Geoffrey Staines

Kevin

M

Michael Worsley

Nurse

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