Sixpenny Corner was the UK's first daily TV soap opera, broadcast by ITV from September 1955 until June 1956. The programme was created by Jonquil Antony and Hazel Adair; the latter later co-created Crossroads. The 15-minute episodes centred on a recently married young couple, Bill and Sally Norton, played by Howard Pays and Patricia Dainton. The setting was the fictional rural town of Springwood, where Bill ran a small garage business at Sixpenny Corner.
All of the 180 episodes are lost.
Cast
The cast includes:
- Patricia Dainton
- Howard Pays
- Robert Webber
- Betty Bowden
- Robert Desmond
- Shirley Mitchell
- Stuart Saunders
- Olive Milbourne
- Walter Horsbrugh
- Christine Pollon
- Elizabeth Gott
- Edward Judd
- Vi Stevens
- Bernard Fox
- Laurence Shiel
- Seymour Green
- Jan Miller
- Mysie Monte
- Anne Warren
References
- "Hazel Adair, scriptwriter - obituary". Daily Telegraph. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
- "Sixpenny Corner (1955)", Television Heaven, retrieved 9 February 2013
- "Missing or incomplete episodes for programme Sixpenny Corner". tvbrain.info. Kaleidoscope. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
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