Scorpion Tales: The Great Albert
You know you're in for something wonderful when the show starts with a child berating a picture of Jesus for not listening to him before signing off with his name and address so that Jesus knows who's talking to him. I honestly thought that Scorpion Tales had appeared here before, but it seems it hasn't. It's another 1970s anthology series of plays built on the earlier succcess of Thriller, in this case with each one having the common feature of a sting in the tale. It's been available commercially on DVD for a while now. The premise is very simple, really: poor Matthew Ward is from a family where the only sensible adults are the staff. His (very superior) bookdealer father is very absent and his mother's emotional and physical neglect reaches positively Edina Monsoon levels of lack of awareness. It's not stated as such, but this is of course the situation of a lot of kids in rich families and this is of course a trauma which carries on through generations,...