Spend Spend Spend (1977)
Based on the book "Spend, Spend, Spend" by Vivian Nicholson and Stephen Smith. Story of pools winner, Vivian Nicholson.
- Date of release
- 1977-03-15
- TMDB
- 5.0 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, TV Movie
- Director
- John Goldschmidt
Casting
- Susan Littler — Viv Nicholson
- John Duttine — Keith Nicholson
- Helene Palmer — Viv's Mum
- Joe Belcher — Viv's Father
- Helene Palmer — Viv's Mother
- Stephen Bill — Matthew
- Liz Smith — Keith's Granny
- Annie Hulley — Girlfriend
- Philip Joseph — Gary
- John Lyons — Public Relations Man
- Jane Lowe — Public Relations Woman
- Peter Mayock — 1st Reporter
Interesting facts
"Spend, Spend, Spend" is the 12th episode of seventh season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 15 March 1977. "Spend, Spend, Spend" was written by Jack Rosenthal, directed by John Goldschmidt, produced by Graeme McDonald, and starred Susan Littler and John Duttine.
Development
Rosenthal was a colleague of the PR man who, on behalf of Littlewoods Pools, persuaded Nicholson to allow publicity for her pools win. He wrote in his autobiography: "From that day on, I followed her wild, seemingly stupid adventures in the papers - and believed every snide, snooty, biased word the relentless publicity said.
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