Initially aired by ITV as part of Sunday Night Theatre, this three-part series by Kevin Laffan was produced by Yorkshire Television and starred Julia Foster as Sally Blissett.
When young Sally’s parents were killed in a car crash, she was forced to postpone her wedding plans and take a job as a temporary typist to help support her 14-year-old brother Bob (Sean Bury) and 11-year-old sister Susan (Katie MacLeod) and to care for her bedridden grandmother (Madoline Thomas).
In each episode, she had a different assignment.
Her first employer was General Sankey, a retired military man writing his memoirs and threatening to pull some rather cobweb-ridden old skeletons out of a long-forgotten cupboard.
Sally struggled to cope with her new role as a surrogate “mother” to her siblings and the rising jealousy of her fiance Colin (Clive Francis).
She eventually found herself taking a good, hard look at holy wedlock when she went to work for successful boutique owners Bryn and Estelle Gurney (David Buck and Sheila Fearn).
The three episodes were repeated as a brief stand-alone series on ITV in 1973.
Sally Blissett
Julia Foster Gran
Madoline Thomas Susan Blissett
Katie MacLeod Bob Blissett
Sean Bury Colin Imlay
Clive Francis Tony Abbot
Christopher Timothy General Sir Benedict Sankey
Roger Livesey Lady Sankey
Rachel Kempson Jeanette Hornby
Phyllida Law Michael Hornby
John Turner Bryn Gurney
David Buck Estelle Gurney
Sheila Fearn
Episodes
The General (19/9/1971) | The Reformer (26/9/1971) | The Designer (3/10/1971)
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