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This is the original version made for the BBC but banned by them and never screened until 15 years later. The BBC said that they banned it because "There was too much incident packed into too short a time and that they doubted the veracity." So they thought it was pure fiction. But they also said that it "looked too much like a documentary."
Alan Clarke and Roy Minton got the story remade as a feature film: Scum (1979).
In the Roy Minton original Play of Scum, he had the Carlin character as a Glaswegian. He had Ray Winstone in both the TV and Cinema release for his way in which he "walked".
The (positive) press screening was held in London's Wardour Street, in Soho, after the producer and director had been recently told by the BBC that it was not to be aired on television.
Had originally, in the script, two suicides but had one taken out to avoid repetition and it becoming too harrowing.
"Formby: [In the self-help meeting] Why am I so far away from home Matron? Eckersley: Because you murdered that kid."
