Play for Today. Leeds United!
First broadcast 31st October 1974.
The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.
Lynne Perrie … Mollie
Elizabeth Spriggs … Maggie
Lori Wells … Sadie
Josie Lane … Annie
Bert Gaunt … Harry Gridley
Stan Stennett … Joe Pike
Peter Wallis … Fred Packer
Bernard Archard … Managing Director, Blacks
Stanley Meadows … Managing Director, Benthams
Terence Frisby … Raymond Boswell
Peter Cellier … Philip Stringer
Pat Wallis … Rhona
Peter Russell … Stan Lloyd
Christine Buckley … Joan
Frances Goodall … Peggy
John Comer … Billy Crane
Martin Dempsey … Union Regional Secretary
George Silver … Bent
Tony Heath … Isaacs
D.J. Huckerby … King (as Denis Huckerby)
Duggie Brown … Bus Conductor
Gwen Harris … Older Worker
Dennis Lawes … Older Worker
Terry Waddington … Dennis Jones
Sue Dexter … Mrs. Hesketh
Nanette Ryder … Mrs. Gridley
Muriel Lawford … Florrie
Wendy Marshall … Young Girl
Bernard Atha … Radio Reporter
Alex Robinson … Town Hall Chairman
Christine Early … Striker
Kenneth Hastwell … Striker (as Ken Hastwell)
Suzi Daniels … Striker
Joyce Kennedy … Striker
Elizabeth Dawn … Striker
Patti Nicholls … Striker (as Patti Nichols)
Olga Grahame … Striker
Don Scales … Jack
Poppy Lane … Striker (uncredited)
Colin Welland … Man guiding scabs
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