''Sixpenny Corner'' was the UK's first daily TV

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, broadcast by ITV from September 1955 until June 1956. The programme was created by Jonquil Antony and Hazel Adair; the latter later co-created ''

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''. The 15-minute episodes centred on a recently married young couple, Bill and Sally Norton, played by

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and

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. The setting was the fictional rural town of Springwood, where Bill ran a small garage business at Sixpenny Corner. All of the 180 episodes are lost.

Cast

The cast includes: *

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* Betty Bowden * Robert Desmond *

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* Stuart Saunders * Olive Milbourne * Walter Horsbrugh * Christine Pollon * Elizabeth Gott *

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* Vi Stevens * Bernard Fox * Laurence Shiel * Seymour Green * Jan Miller * Mysie Monte * Anne Warren

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