Monday 9 March 2015

110 Thursday's Child


First  watched  : 27  December  1972

The  childrens' author  Noel  Streatfield  seems  to  have  gone  out  of  fashion  which  seems  strange  in  these  celebrity-obsessed  times  given  that  much  of  her  work  was  about  youngsters  striving  for  stardom. In  the  seventies  she  was  still  writing  and  popular  and  this  six-part  serial,  contrarily  scheduled  on  a  Wednesday,  was  an  adaptation  of  her  1970  novel  about  three  children  who  run  away  from  an  orphanage.

The  main  character  Margaret  Thursday  was  played   by  young  Clare  Walker  who  continued  in  acting  until  the  beginning  of  the  eighties  but  has  since  become  a  top  casting  director  with  a  long  list  of  film  and  TV  credits, The  other  main  girl's  part  went  to  Double  Decker  Gillian  Bailey.

Their  male  co-stars  weren't  so  lucky. David  Tully  was  never  seen  on  screen  again  while  Simon  Gipps-Kent,  who  seemed  to  be  vying  with  Nicholas  Lyndhurst   as  to  who  could  appear  in  the  most  of  these  things  during  the  seventies,  was  dead  of  a  drug  overdose  at  28.


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