I’m A Dreamer Montreal (Playhouse ITV 1979 with Bryan Murray and Jeananne Crowley)

UK / ITV – Thames (for the Playhouse strand) / 1×60 minutes / Broadcast 6 March 1979

Writer: Stewart Parker / Production Design: Norman Garwood / Producer: Robert Buckler / Director: Brian Farnham

Comedy drama. Music librarian and part time dance band singer Nelson Glover has his dream world shattered when he meets Sandra Carse.

The producers put together a special dance band to make for a top soundtrack for the production which was also a radio 3 play in 1977. The title comes from a misprouncing of the song lyric “I’m a dreamer, arn’t we all” by a bus driver.

cast
BRYAN MURRAY as Nelson
VASS ANDERSON as Gaye Gordon
JEANANNE CROWLEY as Sandra Garse
JAMES DUGGAN as Dickie Doyle
JEREMY NICHOLAS as Eric
MICHAEL DUFFY as Uncle
JOHN JOYCE as Librarian
CARYN HURWITZ as Secretary
DARRAGH O’MALLEY as organiser
STEPHEN PETCHER as sergeant
EAMONN BOYCE as detective
CHRISTOPHER JENKINSON as military policeman
JACK GALLOWAY as scots soldier
ARTHUR O’SULLIVAN as morgue attendant
HARRY WALKER as Jimmy
LIAM O’CALLAGHAN as Silver Munroe
DEREK YOUNG as bus driver
RAYMOND CAMPBELL as tartan youth

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