Our Day Out (1977)

Directed by

Pedr James

Genre

comedy, drama, tv movie

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A schoolteacher takes a class of underprivileged kids from Liverpool on a day trip. The children explore new places and stretch their limits.

lightheartedbittersweetearthygentlewhimsicalwarmpoignantdown-to-earth

What happens

"Our Day Out" is the 16th episode of the eighth season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 28 December 1977. "Our Day Out" was written by Willy Russell, directed by Pedr James, produced by David Rose, and starred Jean Heywood, Alun Armstrong, Elizabeth Estensen, Robert Gillespie, Iona Banks, and Peter Tilbury. "Our Day Out" is about poor children from Liverpool, England. The play was later converted into a full length stage musical. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Blind Man's Bluff (1977)
• The Glitterball (1977)
• Phantom Kid (1977)
• Apaches (1977)
• Skid Kids (1953)
• To Sir, with Love (1967)
• A Little Princess (1973)
• Around the World with Bolek and Lolek (1977)