Sat’day While Sunday

1 9 6 7 (UK)
14 x 30 minute episodes

This short-lived twice-weekly drama series from ABC presented a view of young people’s lives in the north of England. Each storyline comprised two consecutive 30-minute episodes airing on Saturday and Sunday evenings (hence the title) in October and November 1967.

The underlying theme to each story was the tug-of-war relationship between rich girl Charlotte (22-year-old Sarah-Jane Gwillim) and two boys: Peter (21-year-old Timothy Dalton in his first TV role) – a rich, arrogant, nose-in-the-air snob – and Frankie (24-year-old Malcolm McDowell),  a relatively poor boy.

Charlotte became more interested in Frankie because he was more interesting and a nicer person.

Sandra Bryant played Charlotte’s teenage friend, Rita. Glaswegian Gordon Reid played discotheque owner Mike Lewis, a real smoothie who also had designs on Charlotte.

John Wreford played Peter’s middle-class sidekick, Paddy. Roger McGough of The Scaffold narrated.

The series only aired in the Midlands and the North.

Narrator
Roger McGough
Charlotte
Sarah-Jane Gwillim
Frankie
Malcolm McDowell
Peter
Timothy Dalton
Rita
Sandra Bryant
Mike Lewis
Gordon Reid
Paddy
John Wreford
Frankie’s Father
George Betton

Episodes

Home Is Like No Place (Part 1) | Home Is Like No Place (Part 2) | The Bosses Son (Part 1) | The Bosses Son (Part 2) | Nobody’s Going Anywhere (Part 1) | Nobody’s Going Anywhere (Part 2) | Once a Year in the Season (Part 1) | Once a Year in the Season (Part 2) | I Love Me – Who do you Love? (Part 1) | I Love Me – Who do you Love? (Part 2) | Seminar on Communications (Part 1) | Seminar on Communications (Part 2) | Two Smilin’ Faces (Part 1) | Two Smilin’ Faces (Part 2)