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{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}{{Use British English|date=October 2016}}{{italic title}}Horace is a 1972 television play written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clarke, first broadcast as part of BBC1's Play for Today series on 21 March 1972. PlotDiabetic Horace (Barry Jackson) is mentally impaired and works in a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy, Gordon Blackett (Stephen Tantum) who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world. The play was later developed as a six-part half-hour series for Yorkshire Television. {{Play for Today}}{{Alan Clarke}}{{Horace (play)}}{{1970s-play-stub}} 4 : 1972 television plays|BBC television dramas|Play for Today|1972 in British television |