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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Brothers, The

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    It was the BBC’s The Brothers – about the three sons, widow and former mistress of the late owner of a road haulage firm – which put feuding-family sagas on the television map.

    When 70-year old Robert Hammond died, his eldest son Ted braced himself to take over the family’s long-distance lorry business, Hammond Transport Services. After all, he had helped to build up the company.

    However, with the reading of the will, he discovered that his two younger brothers (David, a restless young graduate, and Brian, a boring accountant) had inherited equal shares, and his hard-nosed mother, Mary – who suffered from a heart condition – was just as reluctant to give up her influence.

    Lorries and the grind of daily business were sensibly kept in the background. What grabbed audiences of up to 11 million, and often divided households, was the clash of the women characters.

    In one camp were the supporters of Jean Anderson’s strict domineering matriarch Mary Hammond. In another were those sympathetic to Jennifer Wilson’s schoolmarmy mistress Jennifer Kingsley, about whom none of the family had known until she inherited a share in the business. The truckers were represented by the working-class Bill Riley and his wife Margaret.

    Later additions to the cast were future Doctor Who Colin Baker as obnoxious financial whiz-kid Paul Merroney (an early J.R. Ewing), his disillusioned wife, April (Liza Goddard), and Kate O’Mara as air-freight baroness Jane Maxwell. Later storylines focused on the company’s attempts to go public and expand into a global market.

    For over four years The Brothers played out the boardroom and bedroom battles of this squabbling family and became a firm Friday, then Sunday, night favourite.

    Mary Hammond
    Jean Anderson
    Edward (Ted) Hammond
    Glyn Owen (1)
    Patrick O’Connell (2)
    Brian Hammond
    Richard Easton
    David Hammond
    Robin Chadwick
    Jennifer Kingsley/Hammond

    Jennifer Wilson
    Ann Hammond
    Hilary Tindall
    Carol Hammond
    Nicola Moloney (1)
    Annabelle Lanyon (2)
    Debbie Farrington (3)
    Jill Hammond
    Gabrielle Drake
    Barbara Kingsley/Trent
    Julia Goodman
    Bill Riley
    Derek Benfield
    Harry Carter
    Mark McManus
    Pamela Graham
    Anna Fox
    Nicholas Fox
    Jonathan Newth
    Julie Lane
    Gillian McCutcheon
    Martin Farrell
    Murray Hayne
    Sir Neville Henniswode
    Carleton Hobbs
    Paul Merroney
    Colin Baker
    Clare Miller
    Carole Mowlam
    Gwen Riley
    Margaret Ashcroft
    April Winter/Merroney
    Liza Goddard
    Jane Maxwell
    Kate O’Mara
    Don Stacey
    Mike Pratt

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