BBC executives deemed the sectarian subject matter too controversial; however, they were sufficiently impressed by the material to commission Just Your Luck , in which a young Protestant teenager becomes pregnant to an older Catholic sailor and a life of imprisoned miserabilism looms. Aesthetically, Just Your Luck carries the hallmarks of a television play, looking like it was shot on video tape, mostly in the studio, and lacks the vitality of the later work. It was, nevertheless, deemed to be sufficiently successful for the BBC to put Just Another Saturday into production.
Thus began the short but successful partnership with Edinburgh-born director, John Mackenzie. Here, Mackenzie started his filmmaking career as assistant to Ken Loach on two episodes from the BBC The Wednesday Play series, Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home , working in various roles until he made his own cinematic directorial debut with One Brief Summer and a number of Play for Today episodes including The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black , Black Oil , a celebrated experimental take on the eponymous play by John McGrath of the socialist theatre company 7: The McDougall-Mackenzie partnership hit gold with its first strike.
An explosive depiction of the sectarian conflict that mars working-class life in the West of Scotland, nothing remotely like this had ever been witnessed on television screens. Just Another Saturday was followed by a move into different terrain. Centre screen, we see rows of brown, post-war three-storey blocks. To the right, the back-courts nestle at the bottom of a slope of green grass, all sitting under a sky of a thousand shades of grey.
The camera pans slowly to the right, and signifiers of town or city life appear in the background. It comes to rest and we see, far in the distance, a solitary figure making his way through the housing scheme, footsteps audible against the silence.
We cut in tighter and see a man Jon Morrison emerge from a flight of concrete stairs. He proceeds to move upwards, ascending the hill, moving away from the town. A shipyard horn is heard. Dogs bark in the street.
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