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What began as a one-night stand developed into a tragically obsessive liaison, with devastating emotional consequences for all concerned. Beautifully written by Marchant, Take Me Home is directed with great skill by Jane Howell, a female director who cut her teeth on single dramas such as the BBC's Play For Today, Screenplay and Screen Two dating back to the mid '70s. Female directors were sadly all too rare in house during this period, but I'm grateful that it was a female director who got to helm Marchant's script - unlike many adultery orientated dramas, Take Me Home does not indulge in the kind of steamy, nude encounters that I imagine a male director would push for. For Howell and Marchant its the dialogue that matters, and they treat their audiences as mature and intelligent people.
At a time when we're still hearing about many directors, writers and producers opting for needless, gratuitous nudity, it's refreshing to see that something from twenty-nine years earlier was ahead of the curve and rather more effective to boot. Taxi driver Tom is waved down by Kathy, a lost and distressed young woman who has had a row with her husband. Take Me Home is a British television drama series that originally aired from 2–16 May 1989. The 3-part mini-series starred Keith Barron, Maggie O'Neill, Reece Dinsdale, and Annette Crosbie. It was created and written by Tony Marchant and was shown in three episodes on BBC One.
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He quickly falls in love with her after they finally make love in the back of Tom's taxi. Meanwhile, Martin tries desperately to integrate the couple into their new surroundings. He arranges badminton matches with his colleagues and a dinner party at their exclusive new estate.
This drama written and directed by Megan Park sees the devastating effects of a school shooting on a group of high school students. Brooding Vada , Vada's larger-than-life gay best friend Nick , and semi-famous Youtuber Mia all try to compute what has happened, whilst attempting to piece together their lives during their fragile and soul-searching teenage years. Written by Tony Marchant, the three-part British miniseries Take Me Home starred Keith Barron as Tom, a fortyish, married cabdriver. The plot thickened when Tom had a romantic fling with the much-younger Kathy (Maggie O'Neill), who was also married.
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Tom's initially fatherly concern for bank worker Kathy soon changes to mild contempt when she tells him she has recently had an abortion at Martin's request and when he has to pick her and a worse-for-wear Martin up from a staff party. He tells Liz that this new couple are trouble, confirming his quiet suspicions that the new town and all its changes aren't necessarily for good. However, Kathy confiding in him about her marriage and her unhappiness leads to them meeting secretly, behind their respective partners' backs and, despite the significant age-gap and social differences, a a mutual attraction starts to develop which turns to an obsessive, passionate affair. A chance meeting leads a middle-aged married man into an obsessive affair with a younger, married woman. Tom's home life and marriage with his ditzy wife Liz is safe, stale, and old-fashioned.
His marriage to Liz is in a rut, and he falls for lonely young newlywed Kathy (Maggie O'Neill), after picking her up one evening in a state of distress. Kathy's controlling husband Martin cares only about his career as a computer expert at Chinese-owned tech giant InfoCo, and Tom's initial fatherly concern for Kathy as she opens up to him about her woes soon develops into obsessive passion on both sides. But there are always losers in a winner-takes-all world, and writer Tony Marchant pulls no punches in this gripping tale of adultery, ambition and enveloping despair.
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Tom and Kathy's relationship deteriorates, however, as Kathy shows second thoughts about the affair. The affair ends in the last episode when both Liz and Martin discover their spouses' infidelity. The fictional industrial town is experiencing major transformation, including residential development, roads, and an advanced computer technology centre . Kathy encounters a local taxi driver, Tom, who is driven by his passion for engineering and the infusion of technology in the town. Kathy and Tom begin to meet secretly, behind their respective partners' backs. A middle-aged married man has an obsessive affair with a younger, married woman.
If you had an account on forum.suprbay.org with at least one post, you do not need to re-register. Your account is still active and your Suprbay username and password will work. Tom's character is a fan of Dusty Springfield, and the soundtrack regularly features her recordings. Take Me Home was shot entirely in the Shropshire town of Telford, which itself would have been considered a new town in the 1960s, growing and experiencing massive technological and economic changes, much as the town depicted in the series.
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The lead character, Kathy, was one of the first television roles for actress Maggie O'Neill. Further exposure seems certain, and the consequences will be painful and threaten to destroy them all. Discover the stars who skyrocketed on IMDb’s STARmeter chart this year, and explore more of the Best of 2022; including top trailers, posters, and photos. Very few TV dramas really ever convey the mess of real peoples' love lives but this certainly tries very hard and was worth watching. George Bailey, a decent small-town banker learns what life would have been like if he'd never been born after he unwittingly becomes involved in a mistaken case of bank fraud, which threatens his spirit and tests his will to live.
I have to admit I originally only watched it because it was filmed in the "new town" of Telford, England - a bizarre mix of the old industrial towns that were the origins of our modern world and a newly built centre of advanced corporate blandness.
A middle-aged married minicab driver has an obsessive affair with a younger, married woman in an post-industrial, redeveloped Midlands town in late '80s Britain. Tom is a former tool maker now trying to make a living as a minicab driver. He is married to Liz who also has a new job, working in the canteen at InfoCo. Unlike Martin and Kathy, they live in a traditional 50's built semi in the old part of town and have a grown up daughter who has flown the nest to start her own family.
In contrast, Tom is struggling as a minicab driver; he doesn't know the new estates and new roads and he is concerned by the technological encroachment he sees upon traditional industry, having left his 'job for life' when his duties required him to start using computers. He works most evenings, driving around listening to his Dusty Springfield tape and picking up fares, faced with the irony of trying to get to know the town he has spent his life in. It is one such evening that he picks up the distressed Kathy, who stops his cab and tearfully asks him to "Take me home". Shot in Telford, Take Me Home is set in the fictional Woodsleigh Abbots, an industrial town in the late '80s now experiencing major redevelopment, extending residential areas and roads to focus primarily on the new business park where a Chinese computer technology firm InfoCo has set up home. He tries to integrate them into their new home via badminton and dinner parties with his co-workers and their wives but Kathy is often absent, either mentally or physically. Tom is a middle-aged ex-toolmaker now scraping a living as a cab driver in the rapidly developing fictional Midlands town of Woodsleigh Abbots.
