The Outsider (1983)★ 8.2/10
- Drama
Directed by: Roger Cheveley, Frank W. Smith
Written by: Michael J. Bird
Unemployed journalist Frank is tasked as editor of a religious newspaper in a Yorkshire town. He publishes scandalous articles, inadvertently entangling in a love triangle and threats of compromising revelations.
- Original title
- The Outsider
- Storyline
- Frank Scully, an out-of-work journalist, goes to stay for a few days with friends Donald and Sylvia Harper in Micklethorpe, a small town in the Yorkshire Dales. Miss Banner, the deeply-religious new owner of the local newspaper, asks him to stay on as editor of the paper. Frank unwittingly revives long-dead local scandals when he innocently publishes a series of anonymous articles that Miss Banner has written. Matters are further complicated when he becomes involved in a love triangle with Sylvia Harper and Fiona Neave, who owns the company that prints the newspaper - and Miss Banner threatens to use her column to reveal some very compromising details about Fiona.
- Rating
- 8.2 / 10 · 13
- Companies
- Yorkshire Television (YTV), ITV - Independent Television
- Release dates
- GB September 30, 1983
- BE April 29, 1984