5.6 /10 1 Votes5.6
4.7/10 TV No. of series 3 First episode date 3 March 1978 | 6.5/10 IMDb Country of origin United Kingdom No. of episodes 22 Final episode date 7 June 1980 Number of episodes 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Starring Christopher BlakeMuriel OduntonJoan Sanderson Cast Similar The Fosters, That's My Boy, Holding the Fort, Love for Lydia, Empire Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mixed Blessings is a British sitcom starring Christopher Blake and Muriel Odunton that aired on ITV from 3 March 1978 to 7 June 1980. It was created by comedy-writer Sid Green and produced for the ITV network by LWT.
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Premise and reception
The show starred Christopher Blake, (later of That's My Boy fame), and Muriel Odunton as newlyweds Thomas Simpson, who was white, and Susan Lambert, who was black. Most plots revolved around both families' disapproval of their inter-racial marriage.
According to a review on the BFI screenonline website, the series "was, superficially, more progressive" than earlier sitcoms centred on 'race' such as Curry and Chips (1969), Love Thy Neighbour (1972–76) and Mind Your Language (1977–79). While "the two main characters were sympathetically played... the series [itself] was critically undermined by presenting their relationship as a problem". The review also asserted: "While its set-up points to its integrationist intentions, one only has to look at the title to note the writer's own ambiguous feelings".