The Best Years of Your Life

TV Movie
1986
50m

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A promising 17 year old apprentice footballer is diagnosed with cancer. Initially he lies to his friends, team-mates and himself about his illness and pretends that his condition is not seri... Read allA promising 17 year old apprentice footballer is diagnosed with cancer. Initially he lies to his friends, team-mates and himself about his illness and pretends that his condition is not serious. After an operation fails to remove the tumor and he is told that his disease is termi... Read allA promising 17 year old apprentice footballer is diagnosed with cancer. Initially he lies to his friends, team-mates and himself about his illness and pretends that his condition is not serious. After an operation fails to remove the tumor and he is told that his disease is terminal he is forced to come to terms with his condition, as are his father and older brother.

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Lee Whitlock

I think Lee Whitlock played the part of the young footballer, who'd been diagnosed with cancer. Steve Fletcher played the older brother! Lee Whitlock who played the part of Harvey Moon's son in the original TV series.The screenplay was written by a young boy, who himself was diagnosed with a terminal illness, and was a keen supporter of Chelsea F.C. When this film was first shown on TV in the UK it was introduced by the young man himself. It received much publicity at the time but never reached more than a marginal audience.It would be worthwhile to see this film again just to re-cap the emotions felt at that time. Perhaps it will be shown again on British Television.