243 And Mother Makes Three / Five

First  watched  : Uncertain

Another  post-Corrie  sitcom  which   I  only  include   because  I  know  I  saw  Wendy  Craig  in  something  before  Butterflies  and  it  must  have  been  this . It  started  out  as  And  Mother  Makes  Three  in  1971   about  a  widowed  mum  bringing  up  two  boys  then  became  And  Mother  Makes  Five   in  1974   after   she  married  a  widower  with  a  young  daughter. It  finished  in  1976

Interestingly  both  series  were  written  by  a  quartet  but  only  Richard  Waring  was  a  member  of  both. Craig  herself  wrote  some  of  the  latter  series  under  the  pseudonym  Jonathan  Marr  before  going  on  to  play  in  The  Smiths  ( maybe  I've  got  that  last  bit  wrong ). One  of  the  original  quartet  was  Carla  Lane  and  the  similarity  of  the  premise  to  Butterflies  is   probably  what's  obliterated  my  recollections  of   this  earlier  venture.