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Yes!
 
The TV series was a soap opera called "The Newcomers" and was shown in the late 1960s by the BBC.

 

It dealt with the subject of a London family, the Coopers, who moved to a housing estate in the fictional country town of Angleton. It was broadcast in bi-weekly half hour episodes from October 5, 1965 until November 28, 1969. It was initially produced by Verity Lambert.

 

Sadly, due to a purge of the BBC archives in the 1970s, very little of this show survives.

 

For more information see these pages on Wikipedia and Internet Movie Database.

 

Cast :

 

 Jenny Agutter ....  Kirsty Kerr #1
 Alysoun Austin ....  Sally Burroughs
 Robin Bailey ....  Andrew Kerr
 Paul Bartlett ....  Adrian Robertson
 Robert Bartlett ....  Michael Robertson
 Jonathan Bergman ....  Andrew Heenan
 June Bland ....  Vera Harker
 Alan Browning ....  Ellis Cooper
 Robert Brown ....  Bert Harker
 Jeremy Bulloch ....  Philip Cooper
 Lynne Carol  
 Naomi Chance ....  Amelia Huntley/Malcolm
 Heather Chasen ....  Caroline Kerr
 Michael Collins ....  Jeff Langley
 Patrick Connor ....  Peter Connolly
 Beryl Cooke ....  Celia Stuart
 Helen Cotterill ....  Betty Lloyd
 Gerald Cross ....  Arnold Tripp
 J.G. Devlin ....  Herbert Button
 Maggie Don ....  Kirsty Kerr #2
 Glynn Edwards ....  George Harbottle
 Maggie Fitzgibbon ....  Vivienne Cooper
 Judy Geeson ....  Maria Cooper
 Vanda Godsell ....  Katie Heenan
 Neil Hallett ....  Charles Turner
 Eileen Helsby ....  Patience Penrose
 Gladys Henson ....  Gran Hamilton
 Raymond Hunt ....  Lance Cooper
 David Janson ....  Jimmy Harker
 Megs Jenkins ....  Mary Penrose
 Mary Kenton ....  Olivia Robertson
 Barbara Keogh ....  Celia Blatchford
 John Kidd ....  Eric Crutchley
 Margaret Nolan ....  Tripp, Mercedes Ricarda (1965)
 Sandra Payne ....  Janet Cooper
 Conrad Phillips ....  Robert Malcolm
 Victor Platt ....  Charlie Penrose
 Philip Ray ....  Cornwallis
 Michael Redfern ....  Rufus Pargeter
 Wendy Richard ....  Joyce Harker
 Campbell Singer ....  Henry Burroughs
 Keith Smith ....  Dick Alderbeach
 Julian Somers ....  William Pargeter
 Sally-Jane Spencer ....  Margot Kerr
 Michael Standing ....  Tom Lloyd
 Tony Steedman ....  Arthur Huntley
 Colin Stepney ....  Gordon Pargeter

 Chris Sullivan ....  Charlie (1968) (as Christopher Sullivan)
 Gil Sutherland ....  Peter Metcalfe
 Anthony Verner ....  Sydney Huxley
 Anthony Wager ....  Ted Rumble
 Deborah Watling ....  Julie Robertson
 Jack Watling ....  Hugh Robertson
 George Woodbridge ....  Jacob Penrose
 Cindy Wright ....  Minnie Pargeter