1. It's remarkable to me that at least in the early days of assuming his role as a local bank manager in Dover, after having been an international banker conducting business by hopping from one European country to another, that Mark Telford (played by Peter Barkworth), the titular character of the 1979 ten episode series, Telford's Change, is able to apply the crenative thinking and problem solving that worked so well in high stakes international deal making to the humble situations of everyday people looking to the bank for help in Dover.
Beginner's luck?
I'll keep watching to find out.
2. On the domestic front, his marriage to Sylvia (played superbly by Hannah Gordon) is not proceeding well at all. Hannah Gordon's portrayal of Sylvia as insightful and frustrated, unwilling to move to Dover and eager to establish herself as a behind the scenes employee in the theater world of London is magnificent. I won't say much more except I find myself hanging on her every word as she expresses her frustration with her husband and examining myself as a husband now, yes, but also over years long gone, starting in 1976. I'm also wondering how closely I listened to her and how much I learned when I first watched this series, with my first wife, in England, in 1979.
3. I had fun for a few minutes at dinner time quick frying chicken party wings in hot oil in the wok and doing my best to get panko to stick to them as I enjoyed them for dinner.
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