Urban Myths: Johnny Cash And The Ostrich. Johnny Cash (Frank Skinner). Copyright: Avalon Television

Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
2018
Channel
Sky Arts
Episodes
1
Stars
Frank Skinner, Isy Suttie, Alex Beckett, Toby Williams, Emily Lloyd-Saini, Vanessa-Faye Stanley, Brian Herring and Scott Brooker
Writer
Frank Skinner
Director
Al Campbell
Producers
Lay-Ee Quah, Richard Allen-Turner, Jon Thoday and Jon Mountague
Company

It's November, 1983. Jean, a hotel manageress in Nottingham, arrives at work to find there's trouble in room 211, currently occupied by country music legend, Johnny Cash. Eventually persuading him to let her in, they sit amongst the carnage and Cash explains that he has been visited by Waldo, the killer ostrich. In a series of flashbacks, Cash tells Jean how the ostrich attacked him at his theme park home, The House of Cash, in Tennessee, back in '81 and how that set him on a path of pain-killer addiction and reckless drinking. Now Waldo has turned up in the East Midlands and is aching for revenge.

Additional details

Part of

Urban Myths

Production
Location
Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Colour

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Thursday 26th April 2018 at 9pm on Sky Arts
Episode length
30 minutes
Most recent repeats
  • Tuesday 14th February 2023 at 1:35am on Sky Arts
  • Tuesday 12th July 2022 at 9:30pm on Sky Arts
  • Thursday 17th February 2022 at 2:55am on Sky Arts