This article is about the British children's television series based on the books by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. For other uses, see
Happy Families (disambiguation).
6 November 1989 (1989-11-06) – 18 December 1990 (1990-12-18)
Happy Families is a British children's television series made in the late 1980s based on the Happy Families series of books by
Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Happy Families ran for two series, 24 episodes in all (since each story was split over two episodes), and was shown on Children's BBC in 1989 and 1990.
Synopsis
Each tale is about a family of characters – typically father, mother, son and daughter, but this varies.
The cast played several different characters throughout the series with many recurring roles for the main cast including Milton Johns, Annette Badland and Elizabeth Estensen.