Broadcast: Feb. 18-March 18, 1973. A savagely satirical story of life, love and violent death in the Roaring 20's about the foibles of a generation. Novelist Philip Quarles decides to write a story about the people who are attending a house party hosted by Lady Tantamount. Guest Walter Bidlake pursues the seductive Lucy Tantamount despite qualms about ignoring his pregnant mistress Marjorie. His father John Bidlake is resentfully facing old age. Lord Tantamount's assistant Illidge is snubbed by the founder of a Fascist organization, Everard Webley. Illidge is invited to a man-shooting party by Maurice Spandrell while Burlap is discreetly wooing Beatrice Gilray.
