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2 November 1964 (UK) more
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The four or five times a week adventures of a motel owner, son, daughter and her staff. Drama was never far away from the ringing of the reception bell.
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Wonderfully awful more (9 total)
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(Series Cast Summary - 6 of 875) | Elsie Kelly | ... | Mrs. Tardebigge / ... (327 episodes, 1968-1988) |
| Noele Gordon | ... | Meg Mortimer / ... (219 episodes, 1964-1981) |
| Susan Hanson | ... | Diane Parker / ... (201 episodes, 1966-1987) |
| Ronald Allen | ... | David Hunter (196 episodes, 1966-1985) |
| Paul Henry | ... | Benny / ... (168 episodes, 1975-1988) |
| Roger Tonge | ... | Sandy Richardson / ... (151 episodes, 1964-1981) |
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The Midland Road (UK) (working title)
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30 min (4510 episodes)
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ATV's budget for the show was so slender that some castmembers were seen on-screen in their own clothes that they'd worn to attend the studio recordings. more
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Referenced in "Top Gear: (2006-05-28)" (2006) more
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For about 25 years, this was British TV's best loved bad soap. Shaky sets, some over the top storylines and a host of okay actors revelling in the whole affair.
Set in a fictitious Midlands town, it centres on the staff and guests at the eponymous Motel - in the early days run by Meg Mortimer (Noelle Gordon) and later by Nicola Freeman (Gabrielle Drake).
The best characters included irascible Scots chef Shughie McFee (from The Great Escape); David Hunter (Ronald Allen from a Night to Remember) and Hammer veteran Sandor Eles (Countess Dracula) as a cliched chef.
Look out too for the late Jeremy Sinden (Donald's son) who went on to play one of the ill-fated pilots in Star Wars - a little movie he shot inbetween breaks from Crossroads.
However, head and shoulders above them all was scruffy, backward, lovable Benny Hawkins who never had much luck - his gypsy girlfriend was knocked down and killed on his wedding day - but with his woolly hat and good heart, he was the Midlands version of Forrest Gump long before Tom Hanks cornered the market in loveable simpletons.
The whole thing was repackaged and revamped as Neighbours, a show also boasting a Tony Hatch theme tune. At one point in the late Seventies, Paul McCartney and Wings even provided a rockier theme tune for this Seventies slice of nonsense, nicely spoofed as Acorn Antiques in Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV.