And Mother Makes Three

1 9 7 1 - 1 9 7 3 (UK)
27 x 25 minute episodes

Wendy Craig's newly-widowed scatter-brained, harassed mother  Sally Harrison in And Mother Makes Three  and her role as Ria Parkinson in Carla Lane's Butterflies were essentially extensions of the same character. Only the members of the families and the details of the kitchen decor changed.

Craig played the role of Sally Harrison a widow faced with the everyday tribulations of raising two well-meaning but nonetheless troublesome children, a cat and a goldfish, 'helped' by her aunt (Valerie Lush), all while enjoying some occasional male interest and holding down a job as assistant to a vet (Mr Campbell). Sally endured a constant series of domestic dilemmas in this series written by Richard Waring. 

The series was later re-titled And Mother Makes Five after Sally married father-of-one widower and antiquarian bookseller David Redway. The domestic scope of the new series was much the same, with Wendy Craig as harassed as before and the children growing older but remaining as wholesomely brattish as before.

EPISODES

Simon's Holiday  Birthday Bike  A Bird In The Hand Get Mobile  School For Love  Pound Of Flesh  Mr Mum  A Hard Day Out The Matchmakers

Growing Pains  But How Can I Tell Them? Once A Year Day  All Play And No Work  Gather Ye Mushrooms While Ye May  Father Figure  Girl Talk  Thank Heaven For Little Girls A Family Affair

Two Hearts That Beat As One  Wedding Talk  Homes Sweet Homes  A Home And A Job The Eve Of The Day  And Father Makes Five  Starting Trouble  The Honeymoon's Over