the only thing i remember about it was that it was very boring and me n our kid wernt allowed to talk while it was on,can anyone reminded me what it was about.

Are you sure it wasn't called (careful here) waggolers wa.........no better not :D :D :D

Originally posted by owdlad
Are you sure it wasn't called (careful here) waggolers wa.........no better not :D :D :D
i bet you used to shush the grandkids evrytime it came on,btw it was on around the late 60's/early 70's

Originally posted by kirky
the only thing i remember about it was that it was very boring and me n our kid wernt allowed to talk while it was on,can anyone reminded me what it was about. i have been told it started on bbc radio 2 in 1969 and ended in 1980 , i think it was similar to the archers , was a soap think it was about 3 women sharing a flat .

Originally posted by tinker
it was about 3 women sharing a flat .

is out on DVD:heyhey:

Waggoners Walk was set in a town, very different to Radio 4's The Archers. This was aimed at a younger audience and centered around a Hampstead house that was owned by an aging couple, the Vanghans, and their live-in nephew Rusty who parents had died.
There were three women sharing a flat, Lynne and Tracy who were sisters and Barbara.
There was a second flat which was owned by the Hickeys, Stan ran a shop.

Waggoners's Walk was not an immediate success, so it was given a face lift. Off went the old Vaughans (though Rusty stayed on) and in came in Mike and Claire Nash plus their teenage son. Mike was in PR, but later took over local paper, Hampstead Herald.

Of course, the girls stayed on, and their love life provided a lot of the storylines over the years. Lynn's first husband was Peter Tyson, Tracy married someone rich, and Barbara married the (ex) gay antique shop owner, Colin.

Stan Hickey died, and Gordon Turner took over the shop and then eventually Mrs Hickey. There was a Canadian involved in this somewhere, with a strange alcoholic mother called Bridie Petters, who was one of the characters in the Walk.

For the last month of the series, when the end was in site, the writers abandoned all realism, with aliens appearing on the Heath, and a now widowed Gordon ending up with one of the girls sharing the flat.

The series went for hard storylines such as abortion, child custody, murder, student protest, sexual equality, contraception and hypothermia. During the early seventies more than 4 million people tuned in (beating rivial Radio 4 soap). However, as part of the BBC's money saving plan, the series was axed in 1980.

The series was far more representative of the 1970s than 'The Archers' which was still stuck in the 1950s, but after Waggoners Walk ended (it was produced in it's later days by Anton Gill, incidentally), radio 2 never produced another serial (Waggoners replaced the long-runnning Mrs Dales Diary/.The Dales (from 1963)

not a fan by the way.....

I remember this....

I seem to remember it being on whenever I visited my optician or dentist.... :)

It wasn't exactly my cup of tea. Heck, it wasn't even my Mum's cup of tea.

Joe