The Spongers

1978
The Spongers
8.6| 1h44m| en| Drama, TV Movie
Storyline

In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is under pressure to cut expenditure, and their decisions result in Pauline's mentally handicapped daughter Paula being transferred from a care home for special needs children to an old people's home, where she is all alone.

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  • The Spongers Cast
Bernard Hill as Sullivan
Bernard Atha as Councillor Conway
Fred Pearson as Director of Social Services
Donald Gee as Dr Whitehead
Roger Sloman as Presenting Officer at Tribunal
Lesley Nightingale as Asst Supervisor at Home