Broadcast: Oct. 11- Nov. 29, 1987. The curtain rises on the series' 17th season with a look behind the footlights of the glittering London theater world of the 1920s through the escapades of the Bretts, a family dedicated to drama onstage and off. This eight part series stars Norman Rodway as Charles Brett, Barbara Murray as his wife, Lydia. David Yelland and George Winter play sons Edwin and Thomas, and Belinda Land is the irrepressible vamp, Martha.
