Day To Remember

Day To Remember
Written by	Jack Rosenthal
Directed by	Pedr James
Starring	George Cole Rosemary Leach
Country of origin	UK
Production
Producer(s)	Humphrey Barclay
Running time	50 minutes
Production company(s)	Television South
Release
Original network	Channel 4
Original release	21 December 1986

Day To Remember is a British Christmas television play first transmitted 9.45pm Sunday 21 December 1986 on Channel 4 from Television South Production in association with the Theatre of Comedy Entertainment. Written by Jack Rosenthal it stars George Cole and Rosemary Leach. Again the strength of Rosenthal's comedy play lies with his closeness to the tragedy as it was based on his own experiences with his father-in-law. The pain and terror of dementia portrayed is contained and balanced by the comic presentation that beset the old. When Jack Rosenthal finally wrote his memoirs An Autobiography in Six Acts,^[1] he did so in the form of a screenplay including a section from Day To Remember, it was published by Robson books in 2006.

Plot

The play is set around the festive period, a season of peace and goodwill, a time for miracles. Wally (George Cole) had suffered a stroke some years back. One of the side effects is that he can't remember things, even things he said five minutes ago, or whether he's had a meal or not. Wally and his wife Hilda (Rosemary Leach) are spending Christmas with their daughter Judy and son-in-law Graham, but the peace and goodwill of the season doesn't last. An idea from Graham (a miracle) hopes to give them all a Christmas they won't forget. Throughout the play Wally repeats a rhyme out loud about his love of eating eggs, with words slightly changed each time he says it.

Wally's Poem:-

Fried eggs for my dinner, Fried eggs for my tea, Fried eggs in my belly, Da-da-da-da-dee

Cast

Wally - George Cole
Hilda - Rosemary Leach
Judy - Barbara Flynn
Graham - Ron Cook

References

↑ Rosenthal, Jack (1 June 2006). "By Jack Rosenthal: An Autobiography in Six Acts". Pavilion Books. Retrieved 14 July 2016 – via Google Books.

The works of Jack Rosenthal

Television writing	Coronation Street (1961–69) Pardon the Expression (1965–66) There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah (1968) The Dustbinmen (1969–70) The Lovers (1970–71) Another Sunday and Sweet F.A. (1972) The Evacuees (1975) Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill (1976) Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976) Spend, Spend, Spend (1977) London's Burning (1986) Day To Remember (1986) And a Nightingale Sang (1989) About Face (1989–91) Wide-Eyed and Legless (1993) Eskimo Day (1996)

Films	The Lucky Star (1980) P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982) Yentl (1983) The Chain (1984) Captain Jack (1999) Chicken Run (2000)

Stage works	Bar Mitzvah Boy (musical) (1978)

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