The Bass Player and the Blonde was a television play in the ITV Playhouse series, first broadcast 14 June 1977. It was followed up with a three-part serial with the episodes given the names of musical terms: Rondo, Allegro, and Andante. In the play and the series, George Manghan, a middle aged, debt ridden bass player in a Jazz band, falls in love with the wealthy and much younger blonde singer Terry, much to the distress of her father.
Edward Woodward
George Mangham
Jane Wymark
Terry
Ronald Fraser
Charlie
Jeremy Sinden
Nigel
Alfie Bass
Pawnbroker
Sam Kydd
Max
Betty McDowall
Beth
George Sewell
The Drummer
Len Marten
Auctioneer
George Mangham (Edward Woodward) is a talented world-weary jazz composer who has fallen on hard times and lives in a seedy world. He now works as a bass player at 'Larry's Club' in London.George lives alone with his cat, drinks endlessly and gambles. He plans on marrying a woman he does not love. He is forever being harassed by gangsters who he owes money to.
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