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Rooms

Rooms

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Overview

Rooms is a 1974–77 British afternoon soap created by John Finch and produced by Thames Television for ITV. Each story is two parts, concerning the various drifters who rent rooms in a lodging-house at 35 Mafeking Terrace.

Produced by Robert Banks Stewart, Jacqueline Davis
NetworksITV1

Top Cast

Bryan Marshall

Bryan Marshall

Clive Lawson

Jill Gascoine

Jill Gascoine

Ruth Harris

Sylvia Kay

Sylvia Kay

Dorothy Lawson

Jenny Twigge

Jenny Twigge

Carol West

Anne Dyson

Anne Dyson

Mrs Beale

Ian Redford

Ian Redford

Ian West

Themes & Keywords

lodgersoap opera

About Rooms

Rooms is a drama, soap series that first aired in 1974 exploring themes of lodger, soap opera. it stars Bryan Marshall, Jill Gascoine, Sylvia Kay. Rooms is a 1974–77 British afternoon soap created by John Finch and produced by Thames Television for ITV. Each story is two parts, concerning the various drifters who rent rooms in a lodging-house at 35 Mafeking Terrace.

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