Best – His Mother’s Son (BBC Two) was a gloomy drama about Ann Best, mother of George, who was strictly teetotal until her mid-40s, when she had her first sip of sherry to celebrate her son’s footballing success. Ten years later, she was dead from alcoholism-related heart disease. The recreation of late-Sixties Belfast was accurate and, thank goodness, intelligently subdued: no comedy Ulster accents and no point-scoring subplot about the Troubles.
as Dickie Best
as Dave Sadler
as Journalist
as Barbara Best
as Ad Director
as Ann Best
as Steve Fullaway
as Reporter
as Martha Devine
as George Best
as Ruby Emerson
