![]() Timmer added: "The original TV version of A Bouquet of Barbed Wire was one of the most controversial dramas of its era, busting taboos which still have the power to shock decades later. "It created a stir during the 1970s when first produced for television, and 30 years on we're convinced a modern day audience will be just as intrigued by its themes of paternal jealousy and incestuous relationships." "It's a timeless, multilayered tale of a family torn apart by secrets from the past," said Haynes. The original ITV version starred Frank Finlay as Peter Manson, Susan Penhaligon as Prue, and James Aubrey as Sorenson.Ĭommissioned by the ITV controller of drama commissioning, Sally Haynes, the new version will be made by independent production company Mammoth Screen, which recently produced ITV1's Wuthering Heights, and whose joint managing directors Michele Buck and Damien Timmer are overseeing ITV1/AMC's upcoming remake of The Prisoner. A sequel, Another Bouquet, was made a year later.Ĭlive James, in his Observer review of the first series, commented that "by the end everybody had been to bed with everybody else except the baby". Newman's book, first published in 1969, caused controversy when it was originally adapted for television by LWT for ITV in 1976 with its story of infidelity, lust and incest. Oh well.Eve will play Peter Manson, whose apparently successful life is turned upside down when his teenage daughter Prue reveals she is pregnant by her teacher, Gavin Sorenson. However, it’s extremely unlikely that many of those watching A Bouquet of Barbed Wire will have come away from the experience with this message, quite the reverse in fact. But they’re really there to protect us from others and others from us. ![]() We think moral boundaries are there to keep us prisoner. In the end the lives of all the main characters end in ruins. Gavin destroys his relationships with everyone. Cassie destroys her relationship with Prue as well. Peter destroys his relationships with his work colleagues, his wife and his daughter. The sex revolution was all about transgressing moral boundaries and it still is.īut while A Bouquet of Barbed Wire at one level seems both a product of and a flag-flyer for, the sex revolution, it can also be looked at in an entirely different way, namely as a warning about what happens to people’s lives when moral boundaries are transgressed. The story on which the original series was based was written in 1969, as the sex revolution was hitting its stride, and by 1976, when the original series aired, it was in full stride. What was shocking, and to some people thrilling, about the story, is that the characters transgressed so many moral boundaries. Meanwhile Peter is having an affair with a co-worker. ![]() Her mother, Cassie, gets dragged in and ends up having a brief fling with Gavin. Prue finds herself in the middle of a battle between them for her affections and she uses this to manipulate both of them. Prue becomes pregnant and marries Gavin, much to the fury of Peter. The character around whom all the action centres is Prue, the university-age daughter of Peter who is unhealthily obsessed with her. ITV aired a remake over the last three weeks of the (for its time) shocking 1976 TV series, A Bouquet of Barbed Wire.
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