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Christopher Beeny, who played the teenage Lennie Grove, later featured in the series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–75), and actress Ruth Dunning (Gladys Grove) later won a BAFTA award for her work on Armchair Theatre.
The Grove Family (TV Series 1954–1957) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Peter Bryant, who starred as Jack Grove, went on to become a script editor and producer on the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who. Christopher Beeny, who appears as a teenager in this show, later featured in Upstairs, Downstairs, and actress Ruth Dunning went on to win a BAFTA award for her work on Armchair Theatre.
1954 - United Kingdom. Devised by BBC producer John Warrington and written by father and son team Roland and Michael Pertwee, The Grove Family was Britain's first soap opera for adults - coming two years after the children's equivalent, The Appleyards.
The Grove Family was a British television series that aired on the BBC from 1954 to 1957. The series was one of the first soap operas to be produced in the UK, and it followed the lives of a working-class family living in London.
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The Grove Family was a British television series soap opera, generally regarded as the first of its kind broadcast in the UK, made and broadcast by the BBC Television Service from 1954 to 1957. The series concerned the life of the family of the title, who were named after the BBC's Lime Grove Studios where the programme was made.
