EndedCBBC1989-08-17

Happy Families

Name: Happy Families
Released: 1989-08-17
Rating: 5.5

~30 min

Seasons

Episodes

Networks

CBBC

Countries

First aired

1989-08-17

Last aired

1985-11-14

Language

Rating

5.5 / 10

Synopsis and details

Happy Families is a children's television series made in the late 1980s based on the Happy Families series of books by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Each tale is about a family of characters which in turn is based on the Happy Families card game. 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. Happy Families ran for two series, 24 episodes in all, and was shown on Children's BBC in 1989 and 1990.