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Another screenplay that went unproduced was a Kneale original, a drama involving a wave of teenage suicides called The Big Giggle, or The Big, Big Giggle.
Oct 2, 2018 · Kneale’s unproduced six-part series from circa 1965, The Big, Big Giggle, about a near-future dominated by roving gangs of drug-addicted, nihilistic, and eventually suicidal teens also seemed to ride the wave of the zeitgeist.
Jul 8, 2017 · This deluxe version also includes an accompanying volume containing an unseen Kneale script, The Big, Big Giggle, whose controversial subject matter, a teenage suicide craze, saw it shelved by the BBC in the mid-1960s.
After the last-minute cancellation of a new Quatermass serial and The Big, Big Giggle, about a teenage suicide cult, Kneale left the Corporation for good. Under the auspices of production executive Ted Childs, he would pen all his remaining television scripts for ITV.
Kneale, Nigel. Entry updated 20 March 2023. Tagged: Author. (1922-2006) UK author and screenwriter, married to the well-known children's author Judith Kerr (1923-2019) from 1954 until his death; active from around 1944, very occasionally as by Nigel Neale. After attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and working as an actor, Kneale began ...
Dec 21, 2012 · He also gave us titles like “Vegetable Village,” “Clog-Dance for a Dead Farce,” and “The Big Big Giggle.” One of my favorite Kneale shows involves a frumpy supermarket cashier who enlists the store mascot—a woodchuck called Briteway Billy—to wage telekinetic war against her tyrant boss, pummeling him to death with nonperishable ...
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Dissatisfaction with the youth culture of the time was a preoccupation of Kneale's—in the mid-sixties he had worked on The Big, Big, Giggle, an unmade script about a teenage suicide cult, and following The Year of the Sex Olympics he returned to the theme of youth out of control in his 1969 play Bam! Pow!
