Miss Jones and Son was a comedy series first broadcast on ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 in 1977. It starred Paula Wilcox

Paula Wilcox

Paula Wilcox is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Chrissy in the British comedy Man About the House .-Early sitcom fame:...

, Christopher Beeny

Christopher Beeny

Born in London, Beeny began his career at the age of six when he danced for the ' Ballet Rambert. He spent several years at the ' Arts Educational School before later progressing to 'RADA.His first screen role was in the 1952 film The Long Memory...

, Charlotte Mitchell

Charlotte Mitchell

Charlotte Mitchell is an English actress and poet.She was once the girlfriend of Peter Sellers, hence her occasional appearances on The Goon Show in the 1950s. Charlotte Mitchell was married to actor Philip Guard and is the mother of 3 children, actors Christopher Guard and Dominic Guard and...

 and Norman Bird

Norman Bird

Norman Bird was a British character actor. Often sporting a moustache and an air of worried resignation, he seemed to specialise in downtrodden roles...

. It was written by Richard Waring

Richard Waring (writer)

Richard Waring was a British television scriptwriter.The author of numerous sitcoms from the early 1960s, he is particularly associated with writing domestic sitcoms. His first success was Marriage Lines with Richard Briers and Prunella Scales...

 and produced and directed by Peter Frazer-Jones.

The (two) series depicted the life of Elizabeth Jones (Paula Wilcox

Paula Wilcox

Paula Wilcox is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Chrissy in the British comedy Man About the House .-Early sitcom fame:...

), a young woman coming to terms with the responsibility of looking after her baby alone. Emotional support came in the form of next-door-neighbour and friend Geoffrey (Christopher Beeny

Christopher Beeny

Born in London, Beeny began his career at the age of six when he danced for the ' Ballet Rambert. He spent several years at the ' Arts Educational School before later progressing to 'RADA.His first screen role was in the 1952 film The Long Memory...

). Difficulties included the reproaches of her parents (Charlotte Mitchell

Charlotte Mitchell

Charlotte Mitchell is an English actress and poet.She was once the girlfriend of Peter Sellers, hence her occasional appearances on The Goon Show in the 1950s. Charlotte Mitchell was married to actor Philip Guard and is the mother of 3 children, actors Christopher Guard and Dominic Guard and...

, Norman Bird

Norman Bird

Norman Bird was a British character actor. Often sporting a moustache and an air of worried resignation, he seemed to specialise in downtrodden roles...

), a difficult social life, and a reduced income.

Episodes

Series One (1977)

1. From Here to Maternity (18 April 1977)
2. Baby Talk (25 April 1977)
3. A Kid for Three Fathers (2 May 1977)
4. For What We Are Not about to Receive (9 May 1977)
5. Baptism Under Fire (16 May 1977)
6. And Father Came Too (23 May 1977)

Series Two (1978)

1. More Fish in the Sea (9 January 1977)
2. A Theme in Two Flats (16 January 1977)
3. Will You Be My Wife (23 January 1977)
4. Jobs for the Girls (30 January 1977)
5. Just Good Friends (6 February 1977)
6. Four Part Harmony (13 February 1977)

DVD Release

DVD	Release date
The Complete Series 1	30 August 2010
The Complete Series 2	23 January 2012