mikeluxy

I have memories of a TV Documentary shown on ITV in the mid 70s.

If Memory serves it was called "Johnny come home"....No doubt a play on "Cathy come Home"

The Documentary (as I recall) followed the story of a Teenager called Johnny who had run away from home for the bright lights of London.

As I recall it was made by Granada

If anyone can help can they get back via the page

Thanks

Mike

Freddy

Johnny Go Home was a 1975 Bafta award winning factual programme. It was made by John Willis for Yorkshire Television. It was about homeless young people in London.

I faintly remember it but the above are the only details I know.

regards

Freddy

mikeluxy

Thanks Freddy

This is much appreciated....I wonder if any copys of this are in circulation....I would love to see it again after all these years.

Mike

Cordelia

Hi All
I am a Britfilm fan and read this post with alot of interest. I actually knew quite a few of the characters in the documentary "Johnny go/come home" made in the 1970's. I used to frequent a very iniquitous gay/fetish club in around 1974 called "Chaguaramas" in Neal St. WC2. This later became the infamous Roxy of Punk Rock fame (infame?). I actually knew Johnny (real name) who was indeed a rent boy of around 14 maybe 15 and his rent boy pals, Billy, Phil and Steve whose ages ranged from 12 to 16. They were all little Eastend guttersnipes who worked on the "Meat Rack" in Piccadilly, much to my surburban shock and horror and they all also worked in a launderette around Mile End/Bethnal Green - hustling was a way of surviving for them and they didn't mind who they hustled! Alot of their clients picked them up in amusement arcades around Piccadilly. Johnny and his crew all appeared in the documentary and told me to watch them on telly. I was only around 15/16 myself when I knew them, obviously naive and did not realize then that the poor kids were selling their bodies to buy food, cheap clothes and bits of gold that meant so much to them. I heard one of them died, I think from drugs a few years later. All terribly sad and sordid really, they were just children.

scenesixty

I remember this factual documentary in 1975, watching with my younger brother-it was very depressing.It showed a pathologist examining a young Man who died (beleived mudered) at a roadside somewhere.A lot of those young lads were met at Euston station by a predatory pervert called Roger Gleaves, if my memory serves me right. A very dispiriting documentary (then) on young runaways.