Peter Rokeby (George Costigan) loses his job as an advertising copywriter and decides to become a freelance writer.
To save money, he and his wife Sally (Tessa Peake-Jones) move with their children David (Jeremy Green) and Tammy (Laura Howard) into a more modest home in Meadow Road, Willesden.
They discover the house is haunted by the ghost of the previous resident – a stereotypical interfering Jewish mother called Yetta Feldman (Miriam Karlin).
Yetta died when she choked on a chicken bone whilst eating chicken soup and will only leave the house if the Rokebys find her estranged grown-up daughter, Carole “with a ‘e'”.
But for all her set ways and opinionated views, Yetta has a heart of gold, truly caring for her surrogate family and becoming their phantomish matriarch.
Yetta Feldman
Miriam Karlin Pete Rokeby
George Costigan Sally Rokeby
Tessa Peake-Jones Tammy Rokeby
Laura Howard David Rokeby
Jeremy Green Mr Bloom
David Graham Carole Dawlish
Julia Deakin Hemingway
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