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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1950s 1 Min Read

    Blakes, The

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    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

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