Intimate Contact is a 1987 British television drama starring Daniel Massey, Claire Bloom, David Phelan and Abigail Cruttenden, which deals with the issue of the HIV/AIDS virus.
Written by Alma Cullen and directed by Waris Hussein, the series was produced for Central Television, and aired on the ITV network in three hour-long episodes in March 1987.
[1] Massey and Bloom were both nominated in the Best Actor categories at the 1989 CableACE Awards.
Daniel Massey stars as Clive Gregory, a businessman who contracts AIDS during a business trip to New York City, where he has sex with a prostitute.
Clive's wife, Ruth (Claire Bloom) is devastated by the news, and as the nature of Clive's condition becomes public knowledge the Gregorys face hostility and ignorance from friends, colleagues and those in the local community.