...And Mother Makes Three is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 sitcom

British sitcom

A British sitcom tends, as it does in most other countries, to be based on a family, workplace or other institution, where the same group of contrasting characters is brought together in each episode. Unlike American sitcoms, where twenty or more episodes in a season is the norm, British sitcoms...

 shown on ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 from 1971 to 1973. Starring Wendy Craig

Wendy Craig

Wendy Craig is a BAFTA Award winning English actress who is best known for her appearances in the sitcoms Butterflies, ...And Mother Makes Three and ...And Mother Makes Five...

, it was written by Peter Buchanan

Peter Buchanan

The Honourable Justice Peter Buchanan is a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria, the highest court in Victoria, a state of Australia. Buchanan was appointed a judge of the court on 27 October 1997. Buchanan is currently the longest-serving member of the Court of Appeal.-Education and...

, Peter Robinson and Richard Waring

Richard Waring (writer)

Richard Waring was a British television scriptwriter.The author of numerous sitcoms from the early 1960s, he is particularly associated with writing domestic sitcoms. His first success was Marriage Lines with Richard Briers and Prunella Scales...

. ...And Mother Makes Three was made for the ITV

ITV

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 network by Thames Television

Thames Television

Thames Television was a licensee of the British ITV television network, covering London and parts of the surrounding counties on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until 31 December 1992....

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Cast

• Wendy Craig
  Wendy Craig
  Wendy Craig is a BAFTA Award winning English actress who is best known for her appearances in the sitcoms Butterflies, ...And Mother Makes Three and ...And Mother Makes Five...
  
   - Sally Harrison
• Robin Davies
  Robin Davies
  Robin Davies was a Welsh television and film actor.-Early life:Robert Richard Davies was born in Tywyn, Wales and was educated at Gladstone Park School. He trained to be an actor at the Ada Foster Stage School....
  
   - Simon Harrison
• David Parfitt
  David Parfitt
  David Parfitt is a film producer and actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love....
  
   - Peter Harrison
• Valerie Lush - Auntie Flo
• George Selway
  George Selway
  George Selway was a British actor who had a lengthy career in film and television.Coincidentally, he played a police sergeant in two films starring Hayley Mills: Tiger Bay and Sky West and Crooked ....
  
   - Mr Campbell
• Richard Coleman
  Richard Coleman
  Richard Coleman was a British television and stage actor.-Early life:He was born Ronald Coleman in Peckham, London in 1930. Coleman was awarded the Leverhulme Scholarship to RADA in 1951, and graduated in 1953 with the Principal’s Medal...
  
   - David Redway (series 3 and 4)
• Miriam Mann - Jane Redway (series 3 and 4)

Plot

Newly widowed mother Sally Harrison is trying to hold down a job as an assistant to Mr Campbell, a vet. Her children are Simon and Peter, and her aunt Flo tries to help. She has an occasional love interest in the form of antique bookseller, widower David Redway, who has a daughter Jane.

Series One (1971)

1. "Simon's Holiday" (27 April 1971)
2. "Birthday Bike" (4 May 1971)
3. "A Bird in the Hand" (11 May 1971)
4. "Get Mobile" (18 May 1971)
5. "School for Love" (25 May 1971)
6. "Pound of Flesh" (1 June 1971)
7. "Mr Mum" (8 June 1971)

Series Two (1971–72)

1. "A Hard Day Out" (2 December 1971)
2. "The Matchmakers" (9 December 1971)
3. "Growing Pains" (16 December 1971)
4. "But How Can I Tell Them?" (23 December 1971)
5. "Once A Year Day" (30 December 1971)
6. "All Play and No Work" (6 January 1972)

Short Special (1971)

• Part of Mike and Bernie Winters' All-Star Christmas Comedy Carnival (25 December 1971)

Series Three (1972)

1. "Gather Ye Mushrooms While Ye May" (14 September 1972)
2. "Father Figure" (21 September 1972)
3. "Girl Talk" (28 September 1972)
4. "Thank Heaven for Little Girls?" (5 October 1972)
5. "A Family Affair" (12 October 1972)
6. "Two Hearts That Beat As One" (19 October 1972)

Series Four (1973)

1. "Wedding Talk" (16 May 1973)
2. "Homes, Sweet Homes" (23 May 1973)
3. "A Home and A Job" (30 May 1973)
4. "The Eve of the Day" (6 June 1973)
5. "And Father Makes Five" (13 June 1973)
6. "Starting Trouble" (20 June 1973)
7. "The Honeymoon's Over" (27 June 1973)

DVD releases

All four series have been released on DVD in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 (Region 2) by Network

Network DVD

Network DVD is a DVD publishing company that specialises in classic British television. In particular, it has the rights to a number of well-known ITV programmes...

. A 4-disc set of the complete series has also been released.

DVD	Release date
The Complete Series 1	31 March 2008
The Complete Series 2	24 September 2008
The Complete Series 3	22 June 2009
The Complete Series 4	19 July 2010
The Complete Series 1 to 4 Box Set	8 November 2010

...And Mother Makes Five

In the fourth series of ...And Mother Makes Three, Sally Harrison marries David Redway and a sequel led on from this called ...And Mother Makes Five

...And Mother Makes Five

...And Mother Makes Five is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1974 to 1976. Starring Wendy Craig, it is the sequel of ...And Mother Makes Three and aired for four series. ...And Mother Makes Five was written by Richard Waring, Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer. Wendy Craig also wrote some...

. In 2004, they shared joint 96th place in Britain's Best Sitcom

Britain's Best Sitcom

Britain's Best Sitcom was a poll conducted in 2004 by the BBC, to identify the United Kingdom's best situation comedy. Viewers were asked to vote for their favourite by phone, text message and on the web. The top ten went forward to a final round of voting...

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External links

• ...And Mother Makes Three at Nostalgia Central