form y separately published work icon The Promised Years series - author   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 1954... 1954 The Promised Years
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An ambitious cycle of four television plays, taking place in Italy between 1945 and 1964, by script-writer Iain MacCormick. They were constructed not as a series nor as individual plays, but as a cycle in which the final film returned to the concerns of the first.

The plays were originally produced for the BBC, but at least two of them were subsequently produced for the ABC: The Liberators (as Sound of Thunder) and A Small Victory. In 1960, the BBC produced new versions of The Liberators and A Small Victory, independent of the cycle as a whole.

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form y separately published work icon The Liberators Iain MacCormick , London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1954 8039813 1954 single work film/TV

A group of Allied soldiers occupy an Italian farmhouse in order to undertake a bombing raid on a nearby town, still being used as a supply dump by German soldiers and Italian partisans.

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form y separately published work icon The Good Partners Iain MacCormick , London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1954 8040430 1954 single work film/TV

The second in MacCormick's sequence of television plays. Two of the characters from the previous play carry over to this one.

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form y separately published work icon The Small Victory Iain MacCormick , London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1954 8040684 1954 single work film/TV

Set in a Catholic mission that has been overtaken by Chinese forces.

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form y separately published work icon Return to the River Iain MacCormick , London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1954 8041099 1954 single work film/TV

In 1964, one of the soldiers from The Liberators returns to the farmhouse in Italy that he occupied in 1945.

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