When the Bough Breaks (1971)
NSPCC social worker Margaret Ashdown is given the case of investigating into the Gosse family, when the young mother, Sheila, is unable to explain her baby's fractured skull at the hospital. She discovers the family live in poverty and ignorance, and have a tradition of instability.
When the Bough BreaksDrama, TV Movie
Cast
- Hannah Gordon — Margaret Ashdown
- Cheryl Kennedy — Sheila Gosse
- Neil McCarthy — Eddie Gosse
- Donald Burton — Dr. Cunningham
- Edith MacArthur — Audrey Campbell
- Griffith Davies — George Standish
- Mark Parr — Timmy Gosse
- Ysanne Churchman — Sister Thompson
- Ruth Kettlewell — Sister Potts
- Margaret Elliot — Receptionist
- Andrew Neil — Alec Foster
- Jumoke Debayo — Nurse
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