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- BFI identifier5964
- Date1971-05-06 (Television)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisPlay with the subject of baby battering. NSPCC social worker Margaret Ashdown is given the case of investigating into the Gosse family, when the young mother, Sheila, is unable to explain her baby's fractured skull at the hospital. She discovers the family live in poverty and ignorance, and have a tradition of instability. (Synopsis)
- Credits
- CastHannah Gordon (Margaret Ashdown)
Neil McCarthy (Eddie Gosse)
Cheryl Kennedy (Sheila Gosse)
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Title
When the Bough Breaks (Original)
Category
Fiction- Collections
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Original Telerecorded Negative - Safety - Combined - Master
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2-inch Quadruplex - Video - Master
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Work - 5964 - 1971-05-06 (Television)
United Kingdom - TV - Fiction
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