Happy Families 35 years old

Happy Families is a children's television series made in the late 1980s based on the Happy Families series of books by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Each tale is about a family of characters which in turn is based on the Happy Families card game. 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. Happy Families ran for two series, 24 episodes in all, and was shown on Children's BBC in 1989 and 1990.

Credits

Cast

Name Character
Tom Wilkinson He was 40 , now 76 years old as Jack
Stephen Fry He was 31 , now 67 years old
Adrian Edmondson He was 32 , now 67 years old
Richard Hope He was 11 , now 46 years old
Helen Lederer She was 34 , now 70 years old

Crew

Name Job title
Happy Families (35 years)

Ended

  • First Air Date: 1989-08-17
  • Runtime: [30] minutes
  • Number of Episodes: 5