Playing Away

  • 1987 film

Comedy about a charity cricket match between a small English village team, and an all-black one from south London.

See also

Outside Edge. Image shows from L to R: Maggie Costello (Josie Lawrence), Kevin Costello (Timothy Spall), Miriam Dervish (Brenda Blethyn), Roger Dervish (Robert Daws). Copyright: Central Independent Television
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Outside Edge

Gentle relationship-based sitcom set around an amateur cricket club and two very different couples brought together by it.

Outside Edge. Copyright: London Weekend Television
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Outside Edge

Prunella Scales and Paul Eddington star as Roger and Miriam in this early 1980s TV production of Richard Harris's 1979 cricket-relationship play.

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