A Very Open Prison
The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murderers! The fore runner of Crossing The Floor
Guy Jenkin
Casts & Crew
Tom Wilkinson
Ronald Pickup
Stephen Tompkinson
Emily Mortimer
Peter Wingfield
Michael Hordern
Geoffrey Whitehead
John Fortune
Celia Imrie
Julian Fellowes
Michael Fenton Stevens
William Hoyland
Trevor Cooper
Jason Barry
David Sterne
Andy Hamilton
Susannah Hitching
Rory Bremner
Also Directed by Guy Jenkin
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