Harpers West One
tv show
32 total episodes
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2 seasons
Shopping With The Lid Off!
First Aired June 26, 1961
Overview
Harpers West One was an ATV television drama series about a fictional department store, Harpers, in the West 1 district of London The show was created by John Whitney and Geoffrey Bellman and ran in one-hour episodes from 1961 to 1963. It was introduced by ATV while Probation Officer, was being rested but became an immediate success. Press releases described it as "shopping with the lid off". A combination of drama and soap opera, it has also been described as presaging corporate dramas such as The Brothers for its depiction of power struggles at board level.
Cast
Jan Holden
as
Harriet Carr
Graham Crowden
as
Edward Cruickshank
Arthur Hewlett
as
Aubrey Harper
Philip Latham
as
Oliver Backhouse
Norman Bowler
as
Roger Pike
Wendy Richard
as
Susan Sullivan
Pauline Stroud
as
Jackie Webb
Vivian Pickles
as
Julie Wheeler
Bernard Horsfall
as
Philip Nash
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Joyce Hemson
as
Lily Oakes
Tristram Jellinek
as
Mike Gilmore
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Gordon Ruttan
as
Jeff Tyson