TV series
Who Pays the Ferryman?
1977 · 1 season
A slow, sunlit return to an island where old loyalties and buried resentments quietly threaten a man's peace.
- Created by
- Michael J. Bird
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Jack Hedley, Lalla Ward, Neil McCarthy
- Overview
- Who Pays the Ferryman? was a television series produced by the BBC in 1977. The title of the series refers to the ancient religious belief and mythology of Charon the ferryman to Hades. In ancient times it was the custom to place coins in or on the mouth of the deceased before cremation so that the deceased could pay the ferryman to go to Hades. The eight-part series was written by Michael J. Bird.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, tense, dark and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Memory, guilt, war, identity
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Michael J. Bird
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Jack Hedley, Lalla Ward, Neil McCarthy
