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CLIVE JAMES
on SAM.
"It contains marvellous things and I urge you
to make a date with it on Tuesday nights."
DAILY EXPRESS
(MARY DUFFY on SAM)
"This superb series".
THE LISTENER
(PETER BLACK on SAM)
"As good a drama serial as the form has yet
produced.......In spite of the size of the
undertaking the dialogue is fresh and
vigorous. Finch has a faultless ear for speech
that is set firmly in character, rings true at
every point and is easy for actors to speak."
STAN BARSTOW
on SAM
"It brings great dignity to the medium and
spurs us all on to do better".
GWYN THOMAS
- Western Daily Mail.
"SAM comes as close as TV ever will to the
writing of a significant novel. It inspects the
less comfortable aspects of our society with an
admirable concern. It is a vital gesture in
education."
NANCY BANKS
SMITH in The Guardian
"It is a night when SAM is one of perhaps
three programmes which give you something
to chew on, something to taste."
OBSERVER
"What more is there to say about this series
whose excellence never falters from episode
to episode."
PHILIP PURSER
in The Sunday Telegraph.
"You're honest beyond the need," could be
Shakespeare. In fact it's John Finch again in
GRANADA'S SAM".
SUNDAY TIMES
"If ever there was a television certainty, it's
SAM."
MANCHESTER EVENING
NEWS
"The drama project of the year".
YORKSHIRE POST
"SAM really does have everything. I cannot
remember having been so impressed by a first
episode of anything before".
GRANADA TELEVISION
"We all owe you a hugh debt. Apart from your
magnificent pioneering of a new television
form; apart from your Herculean single -
handed feat of creating two hugh social
panoramas, apart from the creation of a hugh
gallery of characters, you have also
magnificently proved that television doesn't
have to be rubbish".
BERNARD HOLLOWOOD,
PUNCH
" The little screen has provided nothing finer
in the dramatic field".
HANSARD, Joe
Harper MP
" Those in this house who need to know about
the Poor Law should watch a television series
called SAM".
DAILY MAIL
"A strength of SAM is that most of the story's
people are interesting enough to sustain an
episode on their own".
SID CHAPLIN,
former editor COAL.
"What a treat is SAM. A map of the heart
that puts us all to shame…and a spur."
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