The Spongers (1978)
In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is under pressure to cut expenditure, and their decisions result in Pauline's mentally handicapped daughter Paula being transferred from a care home for special needs children to an old people's home, where she is all alone.
The SpongersDrama, TV Movie
Cast
- Christine Hargreaves — Pauline
- Bernard Hill — Sullivan
- Peter Kerrigan — Peter
- Paula McDonagh — Paula
- Gary Todd — Gary
- Grace Allen — Grace
- Dawn Booth — Baby Dawn
- Angela Catherall — Jackie
- Gertie Almond — Gertie
- Elaine Lindsay — Mrs Johnson
- Bernard Atha — Councillor Conway
- Fred Pearson — Director of Social Services
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