The Piano Tuner

Directed by Alan Clarke
Writer: Julia Jones

First Broadcast: 8 March 1969

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• Frank Finlay . . . . . . . . . Wilfred Tilley
  Daphne Slater . . . . . . . . . Delia
  Shelagh Fraser . . . . . . . . . Daphne
  Helen Lindsay . . . . . . . . . Blanche
  Kenneth Keeling . . . . . . . . . Wally
  Hazel Coppen . . . . . . . . . Woman in pub
  Patsy Crowther . . . . . . . . . 2nd Woman
  
  

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  Mr. Tilley tunes pianos and is a regular visitor to the home of three spinster sisters, Delia, Daphne and Blanche. Is the kindly Mr. Tilley a danger to the peaceful lives of the three sisters? Whenever the gentle and amiable Wilfred Tilley calls, the sisters arc not usually at home. But he has gleaned enough about them from Mrs. Pemberton, the "daily," to know that the sister who comes home early this time, with the beginnings of a heavy cold, is the schoolteacher, Miss Delia.
  
  Wilfred is solicitous and sympathetic. He just happens to have a flask of whisky, with which above Miss Delia's faint, bemused protests-he laces her hot milk. Deftly he tucks her up on the couch, and they talk ... of pianos, and music, and colds. And the glow that comes upon Miss Delia is not wholly due to the whisky. There is a strange harmony in this relationship, but it spells discord among the sisters. For Daphne and Blanche are quick to see that their well-ordered, feminine world is threatened.
  
  TV Times March 8th 1969.

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