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    Comedy Drama TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Tropic

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    This serial from ATV was based on the bawdy best-selling novel Tropic Of Ruislip by Leslie Thomas which provided a searing exposé of life behind the curtains of an imaginary executive suburban housing estate.

    The setting of Tropic was Plummers Park – a tranquil suburb with seething social activity just beneath the surface.

    It had a railway line that split an executive estate from its council-house neighbours. Another boundary was the canal, where the Reverend Ivor Boon (John Clive) – wild-eyed cleric of St James the Less – saw his efforts to draw the community together sink along with the aptly-named cruiser Titanic.

    Then there was the golf club where husbands claimed to be when dallying at The Load of Hay. In the centre was The Jolly Grinder, convenient to the station – and for a drink on the way home.

    Main characters included Audrey and Andrew Maiby (Hilary Tindall and Ronald Pickup). They lived with their daughter Lizzie (Kate Dorning) at No. 12 Upmeadow. Andrew was a dreamer, a thwarted poet, and an aspiring novelist.

    His patient wife Audrey was worried about both her husband and her rapidly growing daughter.

    Ena and Simon Grant (Bobbie Brown and James Cormack) lived at No. 23 Upmeadow. He was busy getting on with his life; she lounged around all day in a bikini.

    Cynthia and Geoffrey Turvey (Charlotte Howard and Ronald Lacey) lived just down the road at No. 6. She had her eye on the local gossip, while Geoffrey’s eye was on beautiful, bored Ena Grant.

    Teenager Bessie White (Lynne Morgan) lived on the council estate with her kleptomaniac grandad (Tony Sympson). Bessie tumbled into a romance with married Andrew Maiby.

    Polly Blossom-Smith (Hilary Pritchard), meanwhile, was the odd-woman-out of Plummers Park.

    Andrew Maiby
    Ronald Pickup
    Audrey Maiby
    Hilary Tindall
    Polly Blossom-Smith
    Hilary Pritchard
    Reverend Ivor Boon
    John Clive
    Geoffrey Turvey
    Ronald Lacey
    Cynthia Turvey
    Charlotte Howard
    Ena Grant
    Bobbie Brown
    Simon Grant
    James Cormack
    Bessie White
    Lynne Morgan
    Lizzie Maiby
    Kate Dorning
    Miss Jankin
    Rosalind Knight
    Grandad
    Tony Sympson
    Hercules
    George Malpas
    Primrose
    Nichola McAuliffe

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