Rent Market in Honey Lane: Series 1 (1967)
3.7 of 5 from 45 ratings
9h 59min
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- Synopsis:
A 1960s forerunner to EastEnders, this highly engaging series captures all of the camaraderie and humour, rivalry and chicanery, graft and greed of a bustling Soho market where stalls may be inherited, bought, or "acquired". This set contains the complete first series from 1967 - all that remains of this well-remembered and highly popular street life drama and its sequel 'Honey Lane'. Billy (John Bennett), a hard-bitten gambler who's usually facing economic disaster on a major or minor scale cheerfully works alongside vegetable seller Dave (Ray Lonnen), who's after a spot for his brother. Widow Polly (Pat Nye) runs a busy fruit stall, while her dim-witted son Danny (Brian Rawlinson) does odd jobs to earn a bit of cash. Then there are the fly pitchers: boys who work out of a suitcase, drumming up a crowd to make a sale and swiftly moving on, or those on the hunt to get a stall - at any cost! The market in Honey Lane may be a human jungle but its traders know how to bury their differences, weed out real rats and deal with interlopers like scheming, corrupt and ever-unpopular market inspector Mr. Tooke (Alister Williamson)... - Actors:
- Ivor Salter, John Bennett, Ray Lonnen, Brian Rawlinson, Pat Nye, Vicki Woolf, Iain Gregory, Michael Golden, Peter Birrel, Alister Williamson, Sheila Manahan, John Barrett, John Boxer, George Betton, Toke Townley, Basil henson, Gabriel Woolf, Walter Sparrow, Gladys Dawson, Veronica Hurst
- Directors:
- Cecil Petty, Paul Bernard, Pembroke Duttson, Valerie Hanson, Alastair Reid, David Reid, John Sichel, Dennis Vance
- Producers:
- John Cooper
- Creators:
- Louis Marks
- Writers:
- Louis Marks, Raymond Bowers, Robert Holmes, Lewis Greifer, Douglas Livingstone, Margot Bennett, Stuart Douglass, Duncan Ross, Robin Smyth, Jack Trevor Story, Bill Strutton
- Aka:
- Honey Lane
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Dramas, TV Soaps
