Mixed Blessings was 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

Situation comedy

A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...

 that was made by LWT

London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television was the name of the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties including south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire, Warwickshire, east Dorset and...

 for and broadcast on the 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...

 network between 1978 and 1980, It was created by comedy-writer Sid Green and starred Actor Christopher Blake

Christopher Blake

Christopher Blake was an English actor and screenwriter who is best remembered for starring in the British sitcom That's My Boy alongside Mollie Sugden.- Early life:...

 and Actress Muriel Odunton.

Plot

The show starred Christopher Blake

Christopher Blake

Christopher Blake was an English actor and screenwriter who is best remembered for starring in the British sitcom That's My Boy alongside Mollie Sugden.- Early life:...

 of That's My Boy

That's My Boy

For a previous CBS sitcom of the same name, see That's My Boy .That's My Boy is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1981 to 1986. Starring Mollie Sugden, it was written by Pam Valentine and Michael Ashton, who later wrote My Husband and I, which also starred Mollie Sugden...

 and Muriel Odunton as newlyweds Thomas Simpson, who was white, and Susan Lambert, who was black. Most plots revolved around both families' disapproval of their inter-racial marriage.

Cast

• Christopher Blake
  Christopher Blake
  Christopher Blake was an English actor and screenwriter who is best remembered for starring in the British sitcom That's My Boy alongside Mollie Sugden.- Early life:...
  
   - Thomas Simpson
• Muriel Odunton - Susan Lambert
• George Waring
  George Waring
  George Waring was a British television actor from 1962 to 2000. He also had occasional feature film credits...
  
   - Edward Simpson
• Sylvia King - Annie Simpson
• Stefan Kalipha - William Lambert
• Carmen Munroe
  Carmen Munroe
  Carmen Munroe OBE is a British actress, born in Berbice, Guyana. Since the early 1950s she has been a resident of the UK. She made her West End stage debut in 1962 and has since played an instrumental role in the development of black British theatre and representation on small screen...
  
   - Matilda Lambert
• Joan Sanderson
  Joan Sanderson
  Joan Sanderson was an English television and stage actress. During a long career she invariably played dragonish dowagers, stuck-up spinsters and suburban matrons.-Theatre:...
  
   - Aunt Dorothy
• Gregory Munroe - Winston Lambert
• Ernest Clark
  Ernest Clark
  Ernest Clark was a British actor of stage, television and film.-Early life:Clark was the son of a master builder in Maida Vale, and was educated nearby at St Marylebone Grammar School. After leaving school he became a reporter on a local newspaper in Croydon...
  
  - Mr Huntley

Series 1

• Welcome To The Family (3 Mar 78)
• Your Place Or Mine? (10 Mar 78)
• You Haven't Got Much, Have You? (17 Mar 78)
• Jobs For The Boys (24 Mar 78)
• Happy Birthday, Dear Fathers (31 Mar 78)
• We're Only Trying To Help (7 Apr 78)
• The Housewarming (14 Apr 78)

Series 2

• A Leg From The Past (6 Oct 78)
• The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Unemployed (13 Oct 78)
• My Chap's Got Work (20 Oct 78)
• Thou Shalt Deny Me (27 Oct 78)
• Your Money Or Your Life (3 Nov 78)
• You're Going To Have A What!! (10 Nov 78)

Series 3

• Away From It All (12 Apr 80)
• Up In The World (19 Apr 80)
• The Anniversary (26 Apr 80)
• The Law And Mr Lambert (3 May 80)
• Goodbye Charlie (10 May 80)
• Your Turn For Grandad (17 May 80)
• Practice Makes Perfect (24 May 80)
• Survival (31 May 80)
• Onto Us A Child (7 Jun 80)