Christine Fletcher (Gerry Cowper, pictured above) and Tim Moffat (Stephen Garlick) were the underage lovers at the centre of this dramatic Saturday night series from London Weekend Television which debuted on 4 November 1979.
Chris and Tim attended the same comprehensive school in London. She was being groomed for university while he was a budding artist who flopped with his GCEs. Her parents were solid and respectable while his parents had split up.
Their clandestine relationship grows into a full-scale love affair and the teenage couple eventually run away together and luxuriate in unhassled bliss until her parents call the police. On the run, they fetch up at his estranged mother’s place for shelter where her frank attitude to sex proves yet another adult embarrassment for the young pair.
In the final episode (Back ToEarth), Chris and Tim return home to distressed parents, friends and teachers.
The Independent Broadcasting Authority ordered that episodes be screened after 10 pm due to the sensitivity around underage sex (the characters were 15) thus depriving the age group for which it was intended from actually seeing it in most cases.
Christine Fletcher
Gerry Cowper Tim Moffat
Stephen Garlick John Moffat
Ray Brooks Emma Moffat
Charlotte Coleman Len Fletcher
David Daker Piers Moffat
Steven O’Shea Paula Moffat
Veronica Strong Jean Fletcher
Bridget Turner Per
David Bradley Miss Rowles
Margery Mason Headmaster
Hubert Rees Mr Aston
Christopher Burgess Lyn
Kim Clifford TC
Michael Deeks Mr King
Denis DeMarne Doreen
Sylvestra Le Touzel Mr Marshall
Richardson Morgan Peggy Fletcher
Sheila Raynor
Episodes
Blueprints | Ructions | Home and Away | Fun and Games | The Trouble with a Kitten | Back to Earth
