Program Title
Reckless, the Sequel

Based On
Original screenplay by Paul Abbot

Number of Episodes:
1

Description
The sequel opens one year later in the life of Owen and Anna. They are now living together and Anna has divorced Richard Crane. Anna and Owen make an impetuous decision to marry--at the end of the week. The idea is to have the ceremony while Richard is out of the country but he gets to hear of their plans and, still very much in love with Anna, he flys back to England determined to save her from what he sees as a potentially disastrous marriage. Richard schemes and plots to stop the wedding, exploiting both Anna's and Owen's emotions and weak spots, and as family members begin to arrive for the wedding there are still more emotional issues and confrontations to deal with. Will Anna make the decision to go ahead, change her life and marry Owen? Is marriage to Anna the best decision Owen could make? Original screenplay by Paul Abbot


Original broadcast date
1999-04-18

Cast	Characters
Robson Green	Owen Springer
Francesca Annis	Anna Fairley
Michael Kitchen	Richard Crane
David Bradley	Arnold Springer
Julian Rhind-Tutt	Danny Glassman
Conor Mullen	John McGinley
Geoffrey Palmer
Pauline Yates

Credits
Executive Producer: Carolyn Reynolds
Producer: Sita Williams
Director: David Richards

Intro
RECKLESS, THE SEQUEL/Intro by Russell Baker

The evil-tempered Doctor Richard Crane is back with us tonight. We met him first in "Reckless," the story of how his badly treated wife was rescued from him by a cheeky and irresistibly charming young doctor named Owen Springer.

Tonight's story is a sequel to that tale. For those who missed it, a brief rundown on what's gone before may be helpful:

Middle-age has come to Doctor Crane and his beautiful wife Anna, and Crane has not taken it gracefully.

He is having an affair with a younger woman. She becomes pregnant. Into his complicated love life comes young Owen Springer.

Though Springer is a fine doctor, socially he is everything Crane despises -- a doctor with a working-class background, a working-class accent and a working-class father who plays the horses and hangs out in pubs.

Springer falls passionately in love with Anna Crane, though she's ten or fifteen years older than he is. And he cunningly engineers a scheme by which Anna discovers her husband is doing her wrong. She's outraged. After all, in twenty-five years of marriage, she has been faithful to him. Suddenly, she is willing to listen to Owen's declarations of love and -- in the words of an old Noel Coward song -- she discovers in the nick of time that life is for living.

When our sequel opens, Anna is divorced and has been living with Owen for the past year. Doctor Crane is in Iceland -- outwardly calm -- inwardly steaming about the injustice of it all -- and hating Owen Springer. Now, Reckless: the Sequel.





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