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.

• Roland JofféDirector
• Jim AllenWriter

• Christine HargreavesPauline
• Bernard HillSullivan
• Peter KerriganPeter
• Paula McDonaghPaula
• Gary ToddGary
• Grace AllenGrace
• Dawn BoothBaby Dawn
• Angela CatherallJackie
• Gertie AlmondGertie
• Elaine LindsayMrs Johnson
• Bernard AthaCouncillor Conway
• Fred PearsonDirector of Social Services