The Cedar Tree was an extremely popular television serial that ran from 1976-1979 on ITV

ITV

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 in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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.

It involved the saga of the Bourne family, hailing from an aristocratic background, before the turn of the Second World War.

The Cedar Tree was an ATV

Associated TeleVision

Associated Television, often referred to as ATV, was a British television company, holder of various licences to broadcast on the ITV network from 24 September 1955 until 00:34 on 1 January 1982...

 Production and brought to the ITV Network by Thames Television

Thames Television

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 in London. One of its stars was the veteran actress Joyce Carey

Joyce Carey

Joyce Carey, OBE was a British actress, best known for her long professional and personal relationship with Noël Coward. Her stage career lasted from 1916 until 1984, and she was performing on television in her nineties. Though never a star, she was a familiar face both on stage and screen...

, and also included Susan Skipper

Susan Skipper

Susan Skipper is a British television and stage actress.After attending the Central School of Speech and Drama in London she went to the British television. She gave her debut in the Carry On Laughing sitcom series in 1975...

 as one of the Bourne family's daughters.

Cast

• Joyce Carey
  Joyce Carey
  Joyce Carey, OBE was a British actress, best known for her long professional and personal relationship with Noël Coward. Her stage career lasted from 1916 until 1984, and she was performing on television in her nineties. Though never a star, she was a familiar face both on stage and screen...
  
   - 'Lady Alice Bourne'
• Philip Latham
  Philip Latham
  Philip Latham is a British actor. He was educated at Felsted School.In the late 1960s/early 1970s he was well known to British TV viewers for his portrayal of chief accountant Willy Izard, the "conscience" to hard-nosed oil company industrialist Brian Stead in the BBC series The Troubleshooters...
  
   - 'Arthur Bourne'
• Susan Skipper
  Susan Skipper
  Susan Skipper is a British television and stage actress.After attending the Central School of Speech and Drama in London she went to the British television. She gave her debut in the Carry On Laughing sitcom series in 1975...
  
   - 'Victoria Bourne'
• Kate Coleridge - 'Phyllis Bourne'
• Cyril Luckham
  Cyril Luckham
  Cyril Luckham was a British film, television and theatre actor.Luckham played the White Guardian in the long running science fiction television series Doctor Who. He appeared in The Ribos Operation, the first serial in The Key to Time season, and Enlightenment...
  
   - 'Charles Ashley'
• Susan Engel
  Susan Engel
  Susan Engel is a British actress.-Theatre:Engel's work in theatre includes: Angels in America , Richard III, King Lear , The Good Person of Sezuan, Watch on the Rhine , Spring Awakening, The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other and Her Naked Skin at the National Theatre, London; Women...
  
   - 'Helen Bourne'
• Jennifer Lonsdale - 'Ann Bourne'
• Michael Macowan - 'Doctor Cropper'
• Pamela Mandell - 'Miss Pringle'
• Jean Taylor Smith - 'Nanny'

Also See

• http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/6155
• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162798/
• http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/british-television/99535-cedar-tree.html Copy of TV times articular about the series
• http://www.atvnewsnetwork.co.uk/today/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=937:forgotten-regional-soaps&catid=16:flashback