TAKE THREE GIRLS - First Episode: "Stop Acting"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Take Three Girls, Episode 1, Stop Acting.
Starring Liza Goddard, Susan Jameson and Angela Down.
Take Three Girls is a television drama series broadcast by BBC1 between 1969 and 1971 that follows three young women sharing a flat in "Swinging London" (located at 17 Glazbury Road, West Kensington, W14). It was BBC1's first colour drama series.
The first series featured cellist Victoria (@LizaGoddard) single mother Kate (Susan Jameson), and Cockney art student Avril (Angela Down). For the second series, Kate and Avril were replaced by journalist Jenny (Carolyn Seymour) and American psychology graduate Lulie (Barra Grant).
Two series, each of 12 episodes, were shown on BBC1 between 1969 and 1971, with selected repeats between the series. Only 10 episodes of the original 24 still exist.
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Love the theme tune! Classy!
Hey Liza. Lovely to see this again. I was a 15 year old lad in 1969. Just started work. Great series and love Pentangles theme. It is so of the time and very memorable. Thanks for posting it.
Liza! You are just the most wonderful actress and I love Take Three Girls, it's so groovy - not least Pentangle's music.
Just discovered this. Thank you Lisa. As a 15/16 year old in 1969 I fell in love with all of you. Put that aside and T3G was an example why British TV had such a great global reputation for television quality. Something it has sadly lost. Pioneering, quality, female leads. you should all be so proud of it.
well said and the beeb's first drama series in colour on TV (wikipedia)
Why do you think the Beeb has lost its "global reputation for television quality"? Wishful thinking because it doesn't reflect your politics? That's the usual reason the British like to slag it off.
Loved this series due to that rather catchy theme tune, so nice again to see it how it was around in 1969.
I remember this programme being aired on the BBC in the late sixties or early seventies. I remember my late mother being particularly taken with the character Avril; but I do not remember the reason why. Funny that fifties years later, I have never forgotten that name from the programme; although I remember little else about the series. However, what I have never forgotten is the theme tune. I suppose it is a sort of "swing" tune typical of the feel good factor of that era.
Wow never knew this existed thank you Lisa , ah what a privilege to have been in London during that great period you are lovely then as now may god bless you 🌹😘
Apparently, this is not available on DVD; so thanks for uploading. 🎉
Thank you Lisa. I have never forgotten this series even though I was only eleven years old. I didn't follow anything really just watched with big eyes. You were the first woman I ever thought was truly beautiful. Nearest thing I got to my first crush, though a little young.
Does my memory serve me right - did your character often say 'too silly'? Stuck in my head that did, I used to say it myself years later putting on a posh accent :>
Thanks again, great memories.
This was and is the most fantastic coming of age at a time that laid the path for the following 50+yrs
Thank you to all who made it possible
It helped me so much..13yrs in 1969...and of course not forgetting Pentagle 's 'Light Flight' ...fantastic song and group..
Coming of age ..For Females!!!
Thank you for loading. What a treat I was just old enough to remember this. It was all so wondering and thrilling the UK was exciting and full of hope then, and the brilliant music of the The Pentangle. Great!
I was 6 when this was shown, yes the UK was exciting and London was the place everyone wanted to be, makes me a bit sad seeing this though.
Wonderful series with a gorgeous theme tune.
Have recently watched this episode. I was 14 in late 1969 when it was originally broadcast, but didn't get to see it then because Mum and Dad decided what channel we'd be watching. It was a revelation, and I've become a big fan of the young Susan Jameson, she looked drop dead gorgeous in it.
She always looks dead gorgeous
She went on to do so many fantastic roles 😯 When the Boat comes in, To serve them all my days, Just a few I can remember but a great actress x
I remember this too Lisa ...so great to see this again 😃👍
Enjoyed this a great deal. I'm new to Take Three Girls, and wasn't much older than three when it first went out. Though this period does resonate with me. This was poignant to watch and so well acted.
Thank you for posting this Liza , you were a part of my childhood!
Thank you so much for putting this up, Liza. I was 17 and wanted to come to London from Scotland. After watching this series, I did just that the following year. I've never forgotten this wonderful programme and look forward to watching the episodes again. x
That's great, just so long as you're aware that 14 of the 24 episodes are missing believed lost.
Thanks for posting this gem. I was obsessed with the program and the music, back in the day.
Liza Goddard is the best!
Just discovered this via the’Jackie’ homepage on FB! Thanks Liza!
Wow...😍💃🤗 I absolutely love it!! Thanks Pentangle for putting me on yo this! And Julie West 💖Xx Took me back to another time. 🧙♀️
I've wanted to see this series forever! Thank you so much for posting it!
No problem 😊
Wow, wonderful, just wonderful. Thanks for posting this treasure.
"And don't forget these Frenchies are lecherous and passionate people". Ha, ha. Funny director. And what a beautiful good baby.
Goddard i wanna see you back on tv.
St Bartholomew’s Streatham (Norbury)… I would go there with my dear mum, prior to 1976 when we moved out of London.
A reminder of how hard it is to be a young woman sometimes, and how easy. Men in the 60s held all the power and women had to dance to their tune. As a woman it wasn't (and isn't) difficult to get money and survive, but you had to give up body and soul to get it.
Thanks for sharing this. Hope talking pictures show one day
Absolutely loved this series ....thank u
really enjoyed this, thank you.
I was 5 when this first aired, was 6 in the November, love the old 60's and 70's TV 📺 shows and movies 🎥 😊 Lisa Goddard looks about 18 or 19
Stephanie Cole! As deadly as ever. 👏👏👏
My favourite actress. I was 3 when this came out so only knew about it in the past few years.
Please make the volume louder, if you can. Thank you for uploading this tv series.
Peter Bowles is such a consummate actor.
I was Liss Goddards double for her driving scenes in Pig in the Middle. You could not have wished for a more lovely lady! Beautiful inside and outside!
Where on Earth has this surfaced from? I read that all recordings of this series had been "wiped"?
Only some episodes.
I've only learned about this series, TAKE THREE GIRLS, this evening and by accident. I was starting to watch a TH-cam video about BBC1's color indents starting from when they first broadcast in color in 1969. This included a promo for TTG about which I found out on Wikipedia that TTG (TAKE THREE GIRLS) was the BBC1's very first dramatic series to be shown in color. And, I was so very happy to find THIS first eppie of TTG!! BTW, I'm a soon-to-be 56 year old male and classic TV enthusiast and collector from the USA--San Diego, California to be exact. 😉 Oh yes! HERE is that video on BBC1's color idents I spoke about earlier. th-cam.com/video/JB2IUiKUKg0/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=AdamMartyn
It has been so long, I gasped in shock when she lit a cigarette next to the baby. I do not miss the constant stinking haze adults produced back then.
It's a pity that so many episodes were destroyed by the BBC. It seems that public broadcasters in the English speaking world destroy more of their programmes than their commercial counterparts. Perhaps the latter archive their output in the hope of making some money in the future, or perhaps the former just had much more original material to deal with. I remember watching the series on Australian tv (probably the Australian Broadcasting Company) in the early 70s. I wonder where those tapes are now - returned to the BBC, destroyed (in accordance with the licensing arrangements), or archived at the ABC. It may be worth pursuing.
Yes I totally agree I would have loved to see the whole series because I watched the original 😯 what a shame such a brilliant series wasn’t stored it’s a sad lost x
Is that Pentangle that did the theme music?
Yes!
Grooh..laced with folk! Should've used The Scaffold.
most of these are lost now. crying shame.
Yes I think the BBC should hang there heads in shame for deleting these I would certainly love to watch the whole thing again and gladly buy a box set if that was possible
Thanks for posting this
/ not seen this for a long time :-) Do you have any more episodes apart from these 3 ?
There are several more episodes. Click on the name of the channel [Liza Goddard] and it should show you what videos are available.
She from smerwick near Birmingham i she received a walk of star pavement on Board Street Birmingham
Do you keep in touch with the other girls now Liza ?
Liza and Susan Jameson remain the best of friends to this day. 😊
Hard to believe that Ronald Radd, playing the abusive director, was 40 years old here.
I loved this series when I was 19 but either it's grown old or I have. The acting is bloody awful.
Shocking over acting from Peter Bowles. I get a sense he hadn't quite shaken off his role as the silly arse hussar officer from the previous year's film The Charge of the Light Brigade.
He soon slipped back into character for The Irish RM
Yes, I winced!
Girls were more natural and feminine back then
Mmmmmm Liza Goddard.....
Mmmm plenty of tights and short skirts..yum!
@@Stiffd1 you could get away with that in the early 70’s…
@@Mishima505 70s? You still can today...phwoarr!
Oh dear, this hasn't aged well
She went on to marry a Likely Lad!
James Bolam.
Lass wer' there when the boat came in!
"...five, four, thrrrrrrrrrrree..."
2, 1. Waaaay back..in time!
Such a shame the UK has been ruled by thatcher and greed since the 80s onwards. The 60s/70s were indeed a new and exciting revolution! Going to each other's houses after the UK pubs shut at 10:30pm on a Friday and Saturday nights listening to all sorts of music ! Am I just an old fart reminiscing or was life less ruled by greed in my youth !! Who knows.
She’s ma girl.
Poor Kate.
Yes Liza was gorgeous but it was Angela for this 16 year old (and later as Princess Maria in War and Peace)
Thrrrrree...
No.