| Genre: | Drama |
| Director: | Alan Clayton (1989) Ken Horn (1991) |
| Based On: | We Are Seven by Una Troy |
| Composer: | Jochen Eisentraut |
| Starring: | Helen Roberts Christopher Mitchum Julianne Barron James Bird Beth Robert Jürgen Morche Gudrun Gabriel Howell Evans Dafydd Hywel Terence Bennett Beth Morris Huw Ceredig |
| Num Series: | 2 |
| Num Episodes: | 13 |
| Runtime: | 58 minutes |
| Producer: | Alan Clayton |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Location: | Llanddewi Brefi, Ceredigion, Dyfed, Wales, UK |
| Company: | HTV Wales |
| Network: | ITV |
We Are Seven is a British television drama series set in Wales and based on the 1955 book of the same name by Una Troy. It was produced by HTV Wales and shown on ITV. It ran for two series between 11 June 1989 and 17 July 1991.
The show's first season routinely received eight million viewers for each episode.[1] At the 1990 edition of the New York International Film and TV Festival, the show season received a gold medal.[1] The children in the cast largely are HTV Wales Junior Drama Workshop participants.[2] The youngest child in the series was played by Gwilym, the 18-month old son of Helen Roberts, who plays the main character Brenda Morgan.[3]
| Actor | Character | |
|---|---|---|
| Helen Roberts | Brenda Morgan | |
| Tommy Morgan | ||
| Elen Carys Jones | Sissy Morgan | |
| Andrew Powell | Willie Morgan | |
| Julianne Barron | Pansy Morgan | |
| James Bird | Toughy Morgan | |
| Mary Morgan | ||
| Jürgen Morche | Paul Hauptmann | |
| Gudrun Gabriel | Sabina Hauptmann | |
| William Price | ||
| Jamesy James | ||
| Terence Bennett | Peter Morgan | |
| Rose Price | ||
| Jim Powell |
Both series were released individually on VHS in the UK by Video Gems in 1991.[4] [5]
The television series stars a woman who had seven children by six men. The Daily Post said, "In Sunday night family viewing time it hardly preaches the sort of morality that would get the Mary Whitehouse sort of approval."[6]
In a negative review, Moira Petty of The Stage and Television Today wrote, "It is quite astonishing that so many clichés could have been packed into one hour of television drama" and "To say that the pace was leisurely would be an understatement. Virtually every scene was strung out to tedious length as if, confronted by the quaint Hovis ad set pieces, the crew was afflicted by a mass breakout of catatonia."[7] Sean Day-Lewis said in Broadcast that the series was "very Welsh and HTV" and "is amusing in an obvious sort of way".[8] The Daily Posts John Williams said the series "fairly bristles with dialogue calculated to make any Welsh expatriot hurry back and joyfully submit to lyrical character assassination."[9]