Horace (television play)
Horace is a 1972 television play written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clarke, first broadcast as part of a BBC1 new play series on 21 March 1972. Plot. Diabetic Horace (Barry Jackson) is mentally impaired and works in a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy Gordon Blackett (Stephen Tantum), who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world. Critical reception. "The Daily Telegraph" wrote "Never sentimentalised... sympathetic, touching The piece worked marvellously well." Television series. The play was later developed as a six-part half-hour series for Yorkshire Television. Horace (television play) Horace