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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Thursday’s Child

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    1 9 7 2 – 1 9 7 3 (UK)
    6 x 30 minute episodes

    When the Rector finds an abandoned baby girl on the steps of his church, she is carrying a note saying, “This is Margaret whom I entrust to your care. Each year, £52 will be sent for her keep and schooling”.

    Naming her Margaret Thursday – the day on which he discovered her – the Rector sends the child to stay with the well-off Cameron family. But the family’s fortunes have dwindled over the years and the surviving Cameron sisters are now too old to look after Margaret.

    When the Rector receives advice from Margaret’s mysterious benefactor that money for her upkeep is no longer available, the girl is sent to stay in an orphanage. Margaret makes herself an enemy of the cruel matron and is soon forced to run away.

    Taking with her two small boys – Peter (Simon Gipps-Kent) and Horatio (David Tully) – they become unlikely leggers on a canal boat.

    The six episodes of this BBC1 series were aired on Wednesdays between 27 December 1972 and 31 January 1973.

    Margaret Thursday
    Clare Walker
    Lavinia Beresford
    Gillian Bailey
    Peter Beresford
    Simon Gipps-Kent
    Horatio Beresford
    David Tully
    Miss Snelston
    Caroline Harris
    Matron
    Althea Parker
    Jem
    Kit Daniels
    Susan
    Maxine Kalli
    Miss Jones
    Anne Pichon
    Clara
    Jill Riddick
    Winifred
    Cindy O’Callaghan
    Filbert
    Edwin Brown
    Ma Smith
    Susan Field
    Mrs Tanner
    Joy Harington
    Lady Corkberry
    Anne Ridler
    Captain Smith
    Will Stampe
    Lord Corkberry
    Peter Williams

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