The One That Got Away

TV Series You Can't Win

Directed by Alan Bridges
Writer: Berkely Mather

1961

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• Virginia Maskell . . . . . . . . Elsa Lander
  Frank Finlay . . . . . . . . George Lander
  Glyn Owen . . . . . . . . Det. Sgt. Holliday
  Leonard Rossiter . . . . . . . . Fenny
  Kenneth J. Warren . . . . . . . . Brewer (as Kenneth Warren)
  Humphrey Heathcote . . . . . . . . Prison Officer
  Christopher Steele . . . . . . . . Craven
  Margery Withers . . . . . . . . Mrs. Kern
  Frank Shelley . . . . . . . . Det. Insp. Lindsay
  John Gill . . . . . . . . Gigs
  Manning Wilson . . . . . . . . Falden
  Charles Wade . . . . . . . . Waiter
  Miki Iveria . . . . . . . . Woman in Printers
  
  Anthology series of plays based around the theme that "crime does not pay".
  
  

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  This is the first TV production that Frank did with director Alan Bridges. Frank and Alan would become lifelong friends and work on many productions together. At one stage they formed a production company Hugo Films with actor Anthony Bate.
  
  Frank first worked with Alan Bridges in the theatre at Guildford Rep and Windsor Rep A View From The Bridge (1959) and then on screen in Thirteen Against Fate: The Murderer (1966), Les Miserables (TV Mini Series) (1967), Julius Caesar (1969) Blood of the Lamb (1969) The Lie (1970) Dear Brutus (1981), and the film The Return of the Soldier (1982).

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• IN prison, Fenny the 'old lag' advises Lander the first timer: 'For a bloke like you there's two things you've got to be determined on when you get out - go straight and never come back: Go straight up to the first bloke that's holding more than you, and take what's owing to you. Then be smart enough not to be brought back here for it.' When the two meet again outside prison walls in tonight's play by Berkely Mather in his You Can't Win series - both men are equally determined, but one is smarter than the other..
  
  BBC Radio Times 12th October 1961