The Grove Family - Definition and Overview

The Grove Family was a British television soap opera, generally regarded as the first of its kind broadcast in the UK, made and transmitted by BBC Television from 1954 to 1957. The series revolved around the life of the family of the title, who were named after the BBC's Lime Grove Studios, where the programme was made.

The programme was written by Michael and Roland Pertwee. As was commonplace in British television at the time, the series was broadcast live, and no episodes survive in the archives. However, a film version produced in 1955 by the Butchers company, written by the Pertwees and starring the television cast, does exist as an example of the series. The film was titled It's a Great Day.

In 1991, during a special day of programming transmitted on the BBC Two network to commemorate the closing of Lime Grove, a new edition of the programme was shown, a modern production of one of the original scripts with popular television soap opera actors of the day such as Leslie Grantham filling the roles.

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