UK / ITV – Yorkshire / 6×60 minute episodes / Broadcast 27 July – 31 August 1974 Saturdays 9.15pm
Writer: Philip Mackie / Executive Producer: Peter Willes / Directors: David Cunliffe (episodes 1-3), Christopher Hodson (episodes 4-6)
Comedy drama serial. Young Angie Botley begins a friendship with the middle aged Eustace Morrow. The pair meet at the sauna where Angie works, Eustace is a TV personality who is feeling highly stressed by modern life. Angie just wants to make people happy.
Having already had two failed marriages Eustace is not keen for another but sees Angie as a breath of fresh air in a moribund world, he gives her a job and soon he is finding he wants her more than as a friend.
cast
Julia Foster as Angie Botley
Peter Barkworth as Eustace Morrow
Brenda Cowling as Gwen Botley
Peter Hughes as Cyril Botley
Brian Deacon as Henry Nutting
Peter Bowles as Colin Peale
Joan Hickson as Mrs Morrow
THE EPISODES
27 July – 31 August 1974
1. WHO RAN TO CATCH ME
2. HOW DOTH THE LITTLE BUSY BEE
3. A MINISTERING ANGEL THOU
4. BE GOOD, SWEET MAID
5. DOES THE ROAD WIND UPHILL?
6. IF YOU CAN DREAM
