"Funny Farm"
Play for Today episode
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Episode no.	Series 5 Episode 13
Directed by	Alan Clarke
Written by	Roy Minton
Produced by	Mark Shivas
Original air date	27 February 1975 (1975-02-27)
Episode chronology
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"Funny Farm" is the 13th episode of fifth season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 27 February 1975. "Funny Farm" was written by Roy Minton, directed by Alan Clarke, produced by Mark Shivas, and starred Tim Preece.^[1][2]

Alan Wellbeck (Tim Preece) is a nurse in a mental hospital. His day-to-day struggles with personal feelings and troubled patients provide humour and pathos against the backdrop of a public institution.^[3]

Cast

• Tim Preece as Alan Welbeck
• Allan Surtees as Arthur Rothwell
• Bernard Severn as Ted Spinner
• Michael Bilton as Sidney Charlton
• Kenneth Scott as Jonathan
• John Locke as Jeff West
• Gordon Christie as Jack
• Anthony Langdon as Les Dewhurst
• Wally Thomas as Mr. Chadd
• Donald Bisset as Mr. Scully
• Terence Davies as Walter
• Arnold Diamond as James Ball
• Francis Mortimer as Graham
• Helena McCarthy as Joyce
• Michael Percival as John
• Dorothy Frere as Edna Ball
• Chris Sanders as Bill Spence
• Patricia Moore as Miss Taylor
• John Cross