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The Grove Family
The Grove Family is a british TV series, written by...

Great Britains first soap opera for adults portrays the live of a lower middle-class family and is situated in a quiet road in the suburb of London named Hendon in the 50's. The soap opera deals primarily with every-day life problems and contains also public implications such as the importance of making the house burglar proof or attaining a TV license. The soap opera starts with a celebration of the last mortgage rate that has beeb finally done to repay the house after 20 years. This first episode was aired on Friday night in 1954.

Writer Michael Portwee told in an interview that at first they decided that every episode should deal with a different problem, thus making it possible for the spectator to understand every episode without knowing what happened in the previous one. Discussions on the family name ended up in the adopting the name of the BBC studio situated at the Lime Grove. Then the characters of the seven family members were developed.

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