The Cabbage Patch - ITV1 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)
Genre
Broadcast
Channel
Episodes
7 (1 series)
Stars
Julia Foster, Betty Marsden, Emlyn Price, Natasha Byrne and Belinda Lang
Writer
Directors
Shaun O'Riordan and Paul Harrison
Producer
Company
A view of family life from one key perspective - the mother's/wife's.
The Cabbage Patch focuses on Janet, a suburban housewife who, at the age of 36, has allowed herself to go to seed and is maniacal in the easily distracted, bad-tempered way that she deals with her domestic strife. Young daughters Kate and Elizabeth, while not uniquely problematic, cause her plenty of turmoil, and husband Tony's work in computers affords him the right, he thinks, to loll about at the house in a 'notice-me!' kind of way.
Janet also has to endure her friends Ruth and Susie, who consider themselves superior, and her meddlesome mother, Lillian, whose idea of encouragement is to suggest that her daughter quit the scene and marry somebody else.
Additional details
Production
Studio
Camera set-up
Multi-camera
Picture
Colour
Website links
Broadcast details
First broadcast
Friday 29th July 1983 at 8:30pm on ITV1