Our House (1960 TV series)

Did You Know?

• Two other writers contributed to the series: Brad Ashton and Bob Block.
• The series was produced by Ernest Maxin.
• Episodes were recorded in front of a live audience at ABC's Teddington Studios.

Plot

Nine people—two couples and five individuals—meet at an estate agent in urgent need of housing. Unable to buy alone, they combine their funds to purchase a large house together. The residents include Georgina, a librarian who is loud at home after being quiet at work; Simon, a likeable loner working in the council's rates office; Daisy, who changes jobs frequently; Gordon, a law student; Herbert, a shy bank clerk; Captain Illiffe, a retired naval captain, and his violinist wife; and newly-weds Stephen and Marcia Hatton.

Episodes

The 13-episode first series of Our House ran on ITV Sunday afternoons at 3.25pm in late 1960, with each episode lasting 55 minutes. A second series followed from 1961 to 1962, comprising 26 episodes of 45 minutes each, airing on Saturdays at 7.40pm. The first seven episodes of the second series were broadcast fortnightly across the entire ITV network, but the remaining weekly episodes were not shown in the London region. Of the 39 total episodes, only three survive in archives: "Simply Simon", "A Thin Time", and "Love to Georgina", all from the first series. These have not been broadcast on British television since 1962.