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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Westway

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    Life in a commune means friendly cooperation. That’s what Len Saxby (Ivor Salter) imagines when he answers an advertisement to join one. He and his three children – Anna (Chris Range), Phil (Ashley Knight) and Mark (Nigel Rhodes) – arrive at the big, old house of Westway in Bristol and find it a forbidding place.

    Their welcome is chilly too – especially from the mysterious “sitting tenant”, Miss Marlbury.

    The children of the Saxby, Ryder and Harvey families take an active role in the community only to find that when their enthusiasm for the market garden begins to pay off, it leads to adults squabbling over the profits.

    The dramas of communal life were complemented by a more traditional plotline, when Mark Saxby discovers from the cantankerous old Miss Marlbury that there is some kind of treasure hidden in the big old house. The lost diary of Marlbury’s ancestor, ‘the Yellow Lord’, has great significance when the future of Westway becomes untenable and a price is offered for the mansion.

    WestwayΒ featured an excellent cast of young actors, among them the prolific Simon Gipps-Kent (one of the foremost juvenile actors of the 1970s who later died in tragic circumstances at a young age), Sarah Sutton (later ofΒ The Moon Stallion) and no less than two Tomorrow People (Dean Lawrence and Nigel Rhodes).

    Ann Lynn (who played Jan Ryder) really did live on a commune at the time she filmed this series.

    Pete Ryder
    Donald Morley
    Crispin RyderΒ 
    Simon Gipps-Kent
    Samantha RyderΒ 
    Sylvestra le Touzel
    Jan Ryder
    Ann Lynn
    Len Saxby
    Ivor Salter
    Anna Saxby
    Chris Range
    Phil Saxby
    Ashley Knight
    Mark Saxby
    Nigel Rhodes
    Paula Harvey
    Jane Lowe
    Sue Harvey
    Sarah Sutton
    Ron Harvey
    Dean Lawrence
    Graham Lawrence
    Tim Preece
    Miss Marlbury
    Daphne Heard

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