Cyril Abraham Cyril Abraham Cyril Stanley Abraham (22 September 1915 – 30 July 1979), was an English screenwriter best known for creating the popular BBC series "The Onedin Line" (1971–1980), writing the scripts for 22 episodes in addition to five novels based on the series. Born in Liverpool in England, the son of John Abrahams, an oil mill labourer, and Agnes (née Davies), a widow, who married in 1918, as a boy Abraham attended the Liverpool Collegiate School and as a youth on the training ship HMS Conway before going to sea as an apprentice with the Liverpool shipping line Lambert and
Little Women (1970 TV series) Little Women (1970 TV series) Little Women was a BBC television series in 1970, based on the well-known novel of the same name. It was the third BBC adaptation of the novel. It starred Angela Down as Jo, Jo Rowbottom as Meg, Janina Faye as Amy, Sarah Craze as Beth, and Patrick Troughton as Father. It was shown on the Sunday tea-time slot on BBC1, where the BBC often showed fairly faithful adaptations of classic novels aimed at a family audience. It consisted of nine episodes. It is not one of the better-remembered adaptations of "Little Women", possibly because it