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1983 British TV series or programme

Good and Bad at Games

Written by	William Boyd
Directed by	Jack Gold
Starring	Anton Lesser Dominic Jephcott Martyn Stanbridge
Composer	Cream (songs featured in the film)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Producer	by Victor Glynn
Original release
Network	Channel 4
Release	8 December 1983 (1983-12-08)

Good and Bad at Games is a UK television drama, first shown in the Film on Four strand on Channel 4 Television on 8 December 1983. The screenplay was written by William Boyd and the lead roles of Cox, Mount and Niles were played by Anton Lesser, Dominic Jephcott and Martyn Stanbridge. A young Rupert Graves also appears briefly as Guthrie. The film was directed by Jack Gold, and produced by Victor Glynn.

The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bully and humiliate an unpopular younger pupil (Cox) who is 'bad at games'. Ten years later Cox uses the naive and equal outsider Niles, who is only included in the clique because he is 'good at games', to find out more about the lead persecutor (Mount), in order to exact revenge.

Cast

Niles – Martyn Stanbridge
Cox – Anton Lesser
Mount – Dominic Jephcott
Frances – Laura Davenport
Joyce – Frederick Alexander
Harrop – Graham Seed
Colenso – Ewan Stewart
Guthrie – Rupert Graves
Tregear – Philip Goodhew
Girl – Ceri Jackson
Boy – Tristram Wymark

Music

The songs "Badge" and "Strange Brew" by the rock group Cream are featured prominently.

External links

Good and Bad at Games at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Jack Gold
My Father Knew Lloyd George (1965) The Bofors Gun (1968) The Reckoning (1970) Conflict (1973) The National Health (1973) Who? (1974) Man Friday (1975) The Naked Civil Servant (1975) Aces High (1976) The Medusa Touch (1978) The Sailor's Return (1978) Charlie Muffin (1979) Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) Good and Bad at Games (1983) Red Monarch (1983) Sakharov (1984) The Chain (1984) Murrow (1986) Escape from Sobibor (1987) Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage (1989) The Rose and the Jackal (1990) Heavy Weather (1995) Goodnight Mister Tom (1998)

Films directed by Jack Gold

My Father Knew Lloyd George (1965)
The Bofors Gun (1968)
The Reckoning (1970)
Conflict (1973)
The National Health (1973)
Who? (1974)
Man Friday (1975)
The Naked Civil Servant (1975)
Aces High (1976)
The Medusa Touch (1978)
The Sailor's Return (1978)
Charlie Muffin (1979)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
Good and Bad at Games (1983)
Red Monarch (1983)
Sakharov (1984)
The Chain (1984)
Murrow (1986)
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage (1989)
The Rose and the Jackal (1990)
Heavy Weather (1995)
Goodnight Mister Tom (1998)

v t e Works by William Boyd
Novels	A Good Man in Africa (1981) An Ice-Cream War (1982) Stars and Bars (1984) The New Confessions (1987) Brazzaville Beach (1990) The Blue Afternoon (1993) Armadillo (1998) Nat Tate (1998) Any Human Heart (2002) Restless (2006) Ordinary Thunderstorms (2009) Waiting for Sunrise (2012) Solo (2013) Sweet Caress (2015) Love is Blind (2018) Trio (2020) The Romantic (2022) Gabriel's Moon (2024)
Short story collections	On the Yankee Station (1981) The Destiny of Nathalie 'X' (1995) Fascination (2004) The Dream Lover (2008) The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth (2017)
Screenplays	Good and Bad at Games (1983) Dutch Girls (1985) Scoop (1987) Stars and Bars (1988) Mister Johnson (1990) Tune in Tomorrow (1990) Chaplin (1992) A Good Man in Africa (1994) The Trench (1999) Sword of Honour (2001) Armadillo (2001) A Waste of Shame (2005) Man to Man (2005) Any Human Heart (2010) Restless (2012)
Plays	Longing (2013) The Argument (2016)
Non-fiction	Protobiography (1998) Bamboo (2005)

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