Rooms

1 9 7 4 – 1 9 7 7 (UK)
120 x 30 minute episodes

Thames TV produced this afternoon series about the comings and goings in a large Victorian house in London which had been divided into bed-sitters and rented out to a variety of characters.

Debuting on Tuesday 5 November 1974, Rooms presented self-contained tales twice weekly of the various unfortunate inhabitants of the bed-sitting rooms of 35 Mafeking Terrace, West Kensington.

The original landlady, Dorothy Lawson, was played by attractive 38-year-old Sylvia Kay, who lived in the basement with her husband, Clive (Bryan Marshall), who would rather live off the tenants’ rents than get a steady job.

Tenants came and went, portrayed by a multitude of actors, including Nigel Havers, Jill Gascoine, Tessa Wyatt, Lewis Collins, Brian Cox, Annette Crosbie, Anne Stallybrass, Aubrey Morris, Pat Ashton, Madeline Smith, Brian Peck, Jane Wymark, Miriam Karlin, Paul Darrow, Alfie Bass, Dinsdale Landen, Maureen Lipman, and Ray Brooks.

Dorothy Lawson
Sylvia Kay
Clive Lawson
Bryan Marshall 
Carol West
Jenny Twigge
Ian West
Ian Redford
Baby Alison West
Charlotte Lancaster (1)
Philippa Gill-Donald (2)
Mrs Beale
Anne Dyson
Brian Kettle
William Marlowe
Lesley Losey
Julie Shipley
Ruth Harris
Jill Gascoine
Kathy Singer
Ann Curthoys
Geoff Austin
Michael Boughen
Meryl
Cheryl Branker
Linda Todd
Diana Berriman 
Jim Wilson
Ray Smith
Gavin Singer
Michael Lees
Mrs Beck
Pat Ashton
James Passmore
Donald Burton
Fay Passmore
Mary Miller
Don Harris
John Barcroft
Jan
Jan Francis
Tony
John Duttine
Sally
Tessa Wyatt
Muriel
Vivienne Burgess
Mr Busby
Graham Crowden
Virginia Busby
Jasmine Dee
Miss Peebles
Anne Stallybrass