Happy Families (1989 TV series)

This article is about the British children's television series based on the books by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. For other uses, see Happy Families (disambiguation).

Happy Families is a British children's television series made in the late 1980s based on the Happy Families series of books by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Happy Families ran for two series, 24 episodes in all (since each story was split over two episodes), and was shown on Children's BBC in 1989 and 1990.

Happy Families
Starring	Tamsin Heatley Richard Hope
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	24 (12 stories)
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	6 November 1989 (1989-11-06) – 18 December 1990 (1990-12-18)

Synopsis

Each tale is about a family of characters – typically father, mother, son and daughter, but this varies.

The cast played several different characters throughout the series with many recurring roles for the main cast including Milton Johns, Annette Badland and Elizabeth Estensen.

Cast

• Milton Johns – Mr Clarence Creep, Mr Ding, Mr Cross the Inspector, Mr Alphonso
• Annette Badland – Mrs Wobble the Waitress, Mrs Plug the Plumber, Mrs Lather
• Elizabeth Estensen – Mrs Clara Creep, Mrs Tick the Teacher, Miss Trump
• Richard Hope – Mr Tick, PC Arntby, Mr Bun, Mr Plug, Mr Harry Hay, Captain Salt, Mr. Cash, Mr. Jump
• Tamsin Heatley – Mrs Jump, Mrs Bop, Mrs Brick, Mrs Salt, Mrs Hay, Mrs Bun
• Martyn Ellis-Mr Biff, Mr Money, Blackbeard, Teddy the Chef, Sailor. Martyn also wrote original songs for the show.
• London Kim – Master Money, Master Salt, Teddy Tick
• Ben Thomas – Mr Wobble, Mr Brick, Mr Bop, Mr Toad, Mr Wallis the Warder

Episodes

Series One (1989)

• "Mrs Wobble the Waitress"
• "Mr Tick the Teacher"
• "Mr Creep the Crook"
• "Master Bun the Baker's Boy"
• "Mrs Plug the Plumber"
• "Mr and Mrs Hay the Horse"

Series Two (1990)

• "Mrs Lather's Laundry"
• "Master Salt the Sailors' Son"
• "Miss Brick the Builders' Baby"
• "Master Money the Millionaire"
• "Mr Biff the Boxer"
• "Miss Jump the Jockey"

External links

• Happy Families at IMDb
• Happy Families page at classickidstv.co.uk