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Old Flames

  • TV comedy
  • BBC Two
  • 1990
  • 1 episode

Black comedy starring Stephen Fry and Simon Callow. Also features Miriam Margolyes, Clive Francis, Graham Seed, Christopher Driscoll, Henrietta Baynes and more.

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Press clippings

From time to time playwrights, whetting their knife upon their boot, write something about killing dramatic critics. There is the film Theatre Of Blood, which occasionally crops up in the small hours, in which Vincent Price murders rather a lot of critics. In Simon Gray's Old Flames (BBC2) the names of five theatre critics are stolen for characters who are in gaol or, in the case of Michael Billington, in "A Turkish hell-hole".

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 15th January 1990

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