Weavers Green was a British

United Kingdom

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 television

Television

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 soap opera

Soap opera

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, made in 1966 for ITV

ITV

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 by Anglia Television

Anglia Television

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. It was notable for being one of the first television programmes to be shot on location using videotape

Videotape

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 and outside broadcast equipment, rather than film

Film

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, as had usually been the case for non-studio shooting up until this point.

The series dealt with life in a small country town and provided an early TV role for Kate O'Mara

Kate O'Mara

Kate O'Mara is an English film, stage and television actress. She is perhaps most widely known for her role as Caress Morell, the scheming sister of Alexis Colby in the 1980s American primetime soap opera Dynasty, though is also known for playing other villains such as The Rani in Doctor Who and...

 as a student vet, a far cry from her later TV bitch characters. It has been claimed that the series was axed partially because Anglia was one of ITV's smaller companies, with relatively little power within network negotiations; some have claimed that a lingering resentment over this was the reason why Anglia was still showing Emmerdale Farm out of peaktime after all other regions had moved it into the peak hours (also, Anglia may have resented the fact that Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...

, makers of that series, had replaced it as the company broadcasting from the Belmont transmitting station

Belmont transmitting station

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).

49 half hour episodes were produced, all written by Peter and Betty Lambda.

The village of Heydon

Heydon, Norfolk

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, north of Reepham was used for the main outside filming, and County School railway station

County School railway station

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 was also used for some scenes.

Cast: Eric Flynn

Eric Flynn

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, Megs Jenkins

Megs Jenkins

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, Grant Taylor

Grant taylor

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, Georgina Ward, Richard Coleman

Richard Coleman

Richard Coleman was a British television and stage actor.-Early life:He was born Ronald Coleman in Peckham, London in 1930. Coleman was awarded the Leverhulme Scholarship to RADA in 1951, and graduated in 1953 with the Principal’s Medal...

, Susan Field, Vanessa Forsyth, John Glyn-Jones

John Glyn-Jones

John Glyn-Jones was a British television and film actor.His father was a Member of Parliament and he was educated at Bishop's Stortford College and Oxford University. He began his acting career in repertory theatre in Oxford and with the BBC Drama Repertory Company...

, Maurice Kaufmann

Maurice Kaufmann

Maurice Harington Kaufmann was a British actor of stage, TV and film, particularly well-utilized in whodunnits and horrors who acted from 1954 to 1981, when he retired....

, Marjie Lawrence, John Moulder Brown

John Moulder Brown

John Moulder-Brown is a British actor who started his career as a child; he is best remembered for his role in the 1971 classic Deep End....

, Kate O'Mara

Kate O'Mara

Kate O'Mara is an English film, stage and television actress. She is perhaps most widely known for her role as Caress Morell, the scheming sister of Alexis Colby in the 1980s American primetime soap opera Dynasty, though is also known for playing other villains such as The Rani in Doctor Who and...

, Wendy Richard

Wendy Richard

Wendy Richard, MBE was an English actress best known for playing Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served? and Pauline Fowler in EastEnders...

, Gerald Young, Brian Cant

Brian Cant

Brian Cant is an English actor, television presenter and writer.-Personal life:Born in Ipswich, he currently lives in Buckinghamshire and is married to writer and director Cherry Britton, sister of TV presenter Fern Britton and actor Jasper Britton. They have three children, daughter Rose, and...

, Edward Underdown

Edward Underdown

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, Susan George

Susan George (actress)

Susan Melody George is an English film and television actress, and film producer.-Career:She trained at the Stage School, Corona Theatre School and has acted since the age of four, appearing on both television and film...

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