Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008)
May 27, 2008Release Date
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008)
May 27, 2008Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Julie Walters
Mary Whitehouse
Alun Armstrong
Ernest Whitehouse
Hugh Bonneville
Sir Hugh Carleton Greene
Ron Cook
Lord Charlie Hill
Georgie Glen
Norah Buckland
Paul Westwood
Paul Whitehouse
Timothy Davies
Rev. Basil Buckland
William Beck
David Turner
Nicholas Woodeson
Harman Grisewood
Jeremy Legat
Christopher Whitehouse
Emily Hamilton
Miss Tate
Richard James
TV Journalist
Stewart Wright
Malcolm
James Woolley
Bevins
Mark Bagnall
Brummy Journalist
Hilary Maclean
Brenda
Nicholas Le Prevost
Ken
Nick Green
Composer
Michael Kilgarriff
Cyberman Controller (archive footage)
Richard Burrell
Producer
Rebecca Eaton
Executive Producer
Alex Graham
Executive Producer
Leanne Klein
Executive Producer
Nick Green
Original Music Composer
Details.
Wiki.
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story is a 2008 British BBC Television drama written by Amanda Coe. Set in the 1960s, it recounts the initial campaigning activities of the British morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse. Julie Walters plays the part of Whitehouse, Alun Armstrong her husband Ernest, and Hugh Bonneville plays Sir Hugh Greene, the Director-General of the BBC, who is taken as embodying the liberalizing forces of the "permissive society" against which Whitehouse campaigned.
It was broadcast on 28 May 2008 on BBC Two, aired in the United States on 16 November 2008 as part of the Masterpiece series on PBS and was aired in Australia on 31 May 2009 on ABC1.
The script drew heavily on the Max Caulfield biography Mary Whitehouse (1976) and featured a degree of dramatic licence. For example, Whitehouse and others supposedly called their nascent group "Clean Up National TV" until her husband pointed out the unfortunate acronym - they then changed it to "Clean Up TV."
Among the many reviews published in the press were two contrasting examples in The Scotsman and The Sunday Times.