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RepositoryUniversity Archives and Special Collections Centre
Reference NumberCE/4/5
TitleThe Treatment
DescriptionThe Treatment subseries contains a treatment, synopsis and notes, as well copies of the New Yorker covering from 25 May - 8 Jun 1981. The Treatment, (aka The Patient; aka 'Bad Medicine') is based on a four-part series of articles by Susan Sheehan in the 'Reporter At Large column. The article chronicles Maxine Mason's (known as Miss Sylvia Frumkin in the early articles) descent into schizophrenia and the medical system's failure to monitor her properly after her parents died. The New Yorker published a follow-up article by Sheehan after Mason's death in 1994 in their 'Postscript,' column.
Date1980s
CreatorClive Exton
Individual or organisational biographyFrom his earliest days working on ITV's Armchair Theatre productions to his dramatisations for popular, lavishly produced series such as Agatha Christie's Poirot and Jeeves & Wooster, Clive Exton was a screenwriter who brought intelligence and depth to television drama. (see Saturday, 18 August 2007 Independent Newspaper).
LevelSeries
Custodial HistoryThe papers have been in the possession of Mrs Mara Exton, since the death of her husband Clive Exton. The papers are donated to University of the Arts London in March 2010.
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