Jim Blake (Robert Raglan) loses his factory job in a Herefordshire town and grows disenchanted with living in rented accommodation. Jim reckons that if the family can return south to his Sussex birthplace, everything will be alright.
So he buys an old bus, turns it into a home on wheels and names it Ellenjean.
Jim and his wife Ellen (Betty Woolfe), eldest son Bill (Martyn Anderson), daughter Jean (Anneke Wills) and little Micky (Douglas Hankin) pack themselves into the bus and enjoy all manner of twee “adventures” en route, meeting gypsies and imagined burglars in four slow-moving episodes.
The publicity in the Radio Times at the time summed it up well: “The cast will also include a cat, a sheepdog and a horse who does not mind being shut up in a pantry”.
Jim Blake
Robert Raglan Ellen Blake
Betty Woolfe Bill Blake
Martyn Anderson Jean Blake
Anneke Wills Micky Blake
Douglas Hankin Gypsy
Nicholas Meredith Mrs Wilson
Madge Brindley Mrs Parsons
Blanche Fothergill Mr Oates
Philip Ray Mr Johnson
Peter Bathurst Mr Masterman
Kenneth Edwards Mr de Cartney
Neil More Mr Lucy
Henry Hutteroth Ted Masterman
John Scott
