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A village cricket team plays its last match before most of its players go off to fight in World War I, confident that "it will all be over by Christmas".
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A village cricket team plays its last match before most of its players go off to fight in World War I, confident that "it will all be over by Christmas".
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Genre:Drama, TV Movie
Written By:Colin Shindler
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Runtime:80 minutes
Studio:Yorkshire Television
Cast
David Green
Director
David Hargreaves
Tom Houghton
Jean Rimmer
Margaret Houghton
Christopher Baines
Ken Houghton
Colette Stevenson
Jean Houghton
Jonathan Cullen
Jonathan Houghton
Ashley Barker
Roger Nicholson
Barry Jackson
Arthur Hayworth
Colin Douglas
Tiny Lightfoot
Philip Martin Brown
Jack Fairbrother
Melanie Kilburn
Hilda Fairbrother
Joe Holmes
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