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1 9 6 7 – 1 9 7 0 (UK)
37 x episodes
2 x Christmas specials

Beginning as a 1967 Comedy Playhousepresentation, the BBC comedy series Not in Front of the Children was the first of the sitcoms in which Wendy Craig was cast in the role of harassed and dizzy mother that she was later to make peculiarly her own with And Mother Makes Three and And Mother Makes Five.

Resilient and yet sensitive (or, according to critics of the programme and its successors, simpering and middle-class), her character Jennifer Corner held the family together through crises both trivial and more serious.

The character appealed to thousands of real women whose days were similarly filled.

Grumpy husband Henry was initially played by Paul Daneman and later by Ronald Hines.

The children were Trudi (initially Roberta Tovey, and later Verina Greenlaw), Robin (Hugo Keith-Johnston) and Amanda (Jill Riddick).

The series – written by Richard Waring, author of the previous BBC comedy hit,