The Good and Faithful Servant is a darkly comic television play by the English playwright Joe Orton.
[1] It was originally written in 1964 and was filmed for British television by the company Associated-Rediffusion for ITV as part of the Seven Deadly Sins anthology series, shortly before author Joe Orton's murder in 1967.
[4] Buchanan, a doorman who has worked at the same company for fifty years is close to retirement when he meets Edith, a cleaning woman, who turns out to be his former lover and, unbeknownst to him, mother of his twin sons.
Whilst she happily natters away Buchanan, tears running down his cheeks, closes his eyes and silently dies in bed next to her.
[5] A Canadian adaptation, with Cyril Cusack and Helen Burns in the lead roles, aired in 1975 as an episode of the CBC Television anthology series Performance.