Weavers Green

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Weavers Green is a British television

Anglia Television. It was created based on an idea by Dick Joice.[1] It was the first rural soap opera.[2]

The series was a bi-weekly diary revolving around two veterinary surgeons played by Grant Taylor and Megs Jenkins.[1][3][4] It dealt with life in a small country town and provided an early TV role for Kate O'Mara as a student vet, a far cry from her later TV roles.[5]

50 half hour episodes were produced.[3] The first 30 were written by Peter Lambda and his wife Betty Paul who were succeeded by brothers Troy and Ian Kennedy Martin.[3] Its budget was £500,000.[4][6] The first national broadcast was on 7 April 1966 although was transmitted at different times in different regions.[1]

The village of

outside broadcast equipment, rather than film, as had usually been the case for non-studio shooting until this point.[3]

Additional cast:

Unlike many ITV series of the 1960s, the series survives intact in the archives except for the untransmitted pilots.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c Gruner, Tony (7 April 1966). "Anglia's national diary is launched this week". Kinematograph Weekly. p. 14.
  2. ^ "Betty Paul". The Telegraph. 20 March 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d "BFI Screenonline: Weavers Green (1966)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  4. ^ a b "Australian Rod Taylor's BBC role". The Canberra Times. National Library of Australia. 20 January 1966. p. 19. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  5. ^ "Kate O'Mara". The Herald.
  6. ^ "The Light Horseman rides again". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 15 June 1966. p. 9. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  7. ^ "Weavers Green[07/05/66] (1966)". Archived from the original on 7 November 2017.
  8. ^ "TVBrain - Kaleidoscope - Lost shows - TV Archive - TV History". www.lostshows.com.