Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series)

Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1979)

Roald Dahl: Self - Introduced by

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  Roald Dahl : This is a play about a very expensive mink coat. The original story is quite short. But I'm such a ridiculously slow writer that it took me something like five months to get the thing finished, which is more than 600 working hours. That probably sounds a bit silly to you. But in trying to work the plot out properly, I took so many wrong turnings and went up so many blind alleys, I nearly went crazy. Don't forget a short story writer is working in miniature. And he can't afford to splash his paint all over the canvas. He has to be extremely precise. I find it very difficult. Anyway, see what you think of it.