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1978 Drama TV Movie 1h 44m

The Spongers

In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is under pressure to cut expenditure, and their decisions result in Pauline's mentally handicapped daughter Paula being transferred from a care home for special needs children to an old people's home, where she is all alone.

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Principal Cast

Christine Hargreaves

Pauline

Bernard Hill

Sullivan

Peter Kerrigan

Peter

Paula McDonagh

Paula

Gary Todd

Gary

Grace Allen

Grace

Dawn Booth

Baby Dawn

Angela Catherall

Jackie

Gertie Almond

Gertie

Elaine Lindsay

Mrs Johnson

Bernard Atha

Councillor Conway

Fred Pearson

Director of Social Services

Ina Clough

Deputy Director of Social Services

Donald Gee

Dr Whitehead

Roger Sloman

Presenting Officer at Tribunal