Friday, August 5, 2011

The Life And Times Of Henry Pratt + Selling Hitler

2 comedy-drama mini-series from about 20 years ago.

The Life and Times of Henry Pratt is written by David Nobbs (The Two Ronnies, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, A Bit of a Do, Fairly Secret Army, Rich Tea & Sympathy, Love on a Branch Line, Reggie Perrin).
"Growing up in the North of England in the 1930's and 1940's, Henry Pratt spends his life searching for a means of survival and learning how to deal with his eccentric relationships along the way."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103473/

Selling Hitler is a TV adaptation of the 1986 book of the same name about the Hitler Diaries hoax. A lot of familiar faces in this including Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Richard Wilson, Alison Steadman, Roger Lloyd Pack, Tom Baker, Alan Bennett, Julie T. Wallace and even Barry "Dame Edna" Humphries as Rupert Murdoch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selling_Hitler

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