caa a22 4500 388093676 CHVBK 20180307125258.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X00012665 doi S0266464X00012665 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X00012665 Paget Derek ‘Cathy Come Home' and ‘Accuracy' in British Television Drama [Elektronische Daten] [Derek Paget] When, back in 1971, the original Theatre Quarterly devoted one of its earliest issues (TQ6, 1972) to television drama, the strongest reactions were to remarks by Tony Garnett concerning the recently developed form already being dubbed documentary drama. Subsequent issues featured both an attack on the form from Paul Ableman, and a vigorous defence from its leading practitioner, Jeremy Sandford, author of the seminal Cathy Come Home (1966). As this article bears witness, the debate still rages, and here its leading historian, Derek Paget - author of True Stories: Documentary Drama on Radio, Stage, and Television (Manchester University Press, 1990) - explores some of the ways in which myth has contributed as much as analysis to the argument. He goes back to contemporary documentation to explore the nature of the BBC's own sometimes timorous attitude to the creature it had spawned, its context within the developing aesthetics and technology of television drama, the reactions of politicians and local government agencies - and the way in which repeat transmissions were (and were not) hedged about with paranoia. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/1(1999-02), 75-90 0266-464X 15:1<75 1999 15 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00012665 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00012665 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Paget Derek NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/1(1999-02), 75-90 0266-464X 15:1<75 1999 15 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge