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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

    Square Leopard, The

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    This six-part children’s serial from HTV was written and produced by Peter Miller, and directed by Jan Darnley Smith.

    It told the story of neurotic and hard-up solicitor Gerald Parish (former 1960s pop singer John Leyton) who becomes involved with beautiful widow Mary Lampert (Janet Key) and her five tiresome children when he rents the ground floor of their rambling house in a fashionable area of Bristol.

    The high-spirited children – Toby (Toby Waldock), David (Richard Kellow), Joanna (Jayne Tottman), Bill (Marcus D’Amico) and Richard (Mark Evans) – cannot stand the sight of the irritable new tenant and he likewise.

    When Gerald receives a letter from his wealthy old grandfather, he is presented with a very interesting ultimatum: practically overnight he has to find himself a wife and family or run the risk of being disinherited from the bad-tempered old man’s will.

    And so he begrudgingly curries favour with the kids so he can “adopt” the family.

    Much to the bemusement of Mary and his dizzy secretary, Nesta (Sorcha Cusack), he begins to act like a reasonable human being for the first time in years.

    Gerald Parish
    John Leyton
    Mary Lampert
    Janet Key
    Nesta Wright
    Sorcha Cusack
    Henry Parish
    Raymond Huntley
    Adela
    Jessica Turner
    Joanna
    Jayne Tottman
    Bill
    Marcus D’Amico
    Richard
    Mark Evans
    David
    Richard Kellow
    Toby
    Toby Waldock
    Harold Searle
    Timothy Bateson
    Ron Jenkins
    Norman Bowler
    John Purvis
    Mark Eden
    Det. Insp. Percival
    Bernard Horsfall
    Mr Fox
    Michael Segal

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