When Alan Plater wrote the novel, "Oliver's Travels", on which this television mini-series was based, he dedicated it to his friend and fellow resident of Hull, Sir Tom Courtenay. When the BBC decided to dramatize the novel for television, Plater hoped that Courtenay would play Oliver, and was not pleased either with the casting of Sir Alan Bates, or with the way that Giles Foster directed the mini-series.
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