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Don't Forget To Write!. Image shows from L to R: Tom Lawrence (Francis Matthews), Gordon Maple (George Cole). Copyright: BBC
Don't Forget To Write!

Don't Forget To Write!

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC Two
  • 1977 - 1979
  • 12 episodes (2 series)

Writer George Maple is successful, but plagued by a lack of self-confidence and seemingly continuous writers' block. Stars George Cole, Gwen Watford, Francis Matthews, Daphne Heard, Claire Walker and more.

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Don't Forget To Write!. Gordon Maple (George Cole). Copyright: BBC

Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
1977 - 1979
Channel
BBC 2
Episodes
12 (2 series)
Stars
George Cole, Gwen Watford, Francis Matthews, Daphne Heard, Claire Walker, Ron Emslie and Renny Lister
Writer
Charles Wood
Directors
David Askey, Alan Dossor and Christopher Baker
Producer
Joe Waters
Company

Gordon Maple is a successful playwright with a complex problem: wracked with self-doubt and stricken with the dreaded "block" at times, he believes he'll never work again. Stricken by frustration and mounting angst, he struggles to work through the problems of the everyday and the imaginary with the help of his ever-supportive wife, Mabel.

Of course, it doesn't help when your suave and urbane neighbour is the considerably more successful playwright Tom Lawrence, friend by day and distraction by night. Lurching between the desperate need for the solitude of the agonised writer, and the drive to surround himself with people from which he can glean inspiration, Gordon Maple is a victim of procrastination, fear of opening nights, the drying up of his creative talents, and the inevitable blank page that awaits him.

With all the distractions of life on and off the page, Gordon Maple needs to be reminded of the most important thing in his life: "Don't Forget To Write".

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Production
Studio
Picture
Colour

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Monday 18th April 1977 at 9pm on BBC Two

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