The Loner

Les Dawson was disappointed with the reception the series received. In his 1985 autobiography "A Clown Too Many", he wrote: "Alan Plater, the writer, had an idea which we titled The Loner. In this I played a man coming from nowhere, going nowhere, and it was about what happens to him in transit. There was a trilogy of them, and like most things I'd done, frankly, it was ahead of its time. It was performed without an audience present and the whole thing was shot as a black comedy. Again, I incurred the wrath of the press, they simply could not see the situation, and Yorkshire dropped the idea of doing any more."