Cathy and Reg are a couple with three young children, who find their life spiralling into poverty when Reg loses his well-paid job. Gripping and emotional, Cathy Come Home remains a truly ground-breaking piece of dramatic fiction, engaging viewers with social issues, such as homelessness, unemployment and the rights of mothers to keep their own children.

• BBC
• Carol White
• Ray Brooks
• Wally Patch
• Adrienne Frame
• Winifred Dennis
• Emmett Hennessy
• Alec Coleman
• Geoffrey Palmer