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Mrs. Dale records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Jonquil Antony
It was discovered that Parkwood Lodge was to be pulled down and the land used by rhe Council as a new housing site. Mrs. Dale and Mrs. Freeman, bitterly opposed ro this scheme, decided to form a Residents Protest Committee. Oswald Garnish arranged for Sally to Start hat-making lessons with a friend of his. Maud French and Sally quarrelled, because Sally discovered that it was Maud who provoked .Richard Fulton into a slanderous attack on Barnabas Matthews at a literary iunoheon which she attended. Phill;p Beel, during a snort visit to London on his way to work in Paris, proposed to Elaine.
Sally was forced to write to Mrs. Cunningham abou.t her unpaid account with ' Sarah,' and Mrs. Cunningham objected to what she considered an impertinent letter. Mrs. Dale took Sally's dog. Bflla, to be fitted for a harness; whilst in the shop, the dog was frightened and ran off into the street, and although Mrs. Dale chased her, she was unable to find her.

Contributors

Script By:
Jonquil Antony
Mrs Dale:
Ellis Powell
Dr Dale:
Douglas Burbidge
Bob Dale:
Leslie Heritage
Gwen Owen:
Beryl Calder
David Owen:
Gordon Morrison
Sally Lane:
Thelma Hughes
Mrs Freeman:
Dorothy Lane
Mrs Morgan:
Grace Allardyce
Monument:
Charles Lamb
A Hawker:
Roger Snowden
Richard Fulton:
Norman Chidgey
Fickling:
Robert Webber
Mrs Gascoyne:
Joan Young
Mrs Crosby:
Nita Moyce
Shop Assistant:
Catherine Fleming
Mrs Bowles:
Mary Morrell
Mrs Leathers:
Hattie Jacques
Mrs Moun tford:
Vivienne Chatterton
Oswald Garnish:
Edmund Gray
Vera Finkelstone:
Sylvia Coleridge
Elaine Allardyce:
Elizabeth London
Inspector Wright:
Brian Hayes

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