The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (TV series)

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
Genre	Comedy/Drama
Written by	Sue Townsend Trevor Waite Oscar Webb
Directed by	Peter Sasdy
Starring	Gian Sammarco Stephen Moore Lulu
Theme music composer	Ian Dury & Chaz Jankel
Opening theme	Profoundly In Love With Pandora
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producer(s)	Peter Sasdy
Running time	50/26 minutes
Production company(s)	Thames Television
Release
Original network	ITV
Picture format	4:3
Original release	January 5 – February 9, 1987

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is a British television series based on the book of the same name written by Sue Townsend. It aired in 1987 and starred Gian Sammarco, as the title character Adrian Mole, Stephen Moore as Adrian's father George Mole and Lulu as Adrian's mother Pauline Mole.

Characters

Mole family

• Adrian Mole (Gian Sammarco) is the main character and narrator.
• George Mole (Stephen Moore) is Adrian's father and estranged to Pauline.
• Pauline Mole (Lulu) is Adrian's mother, who left her husband George in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole to live with Mr. Lucas.
• May 'Grandma' Mole (Beryl Reid) is George Mole's mother and Adrian's grandmother.
• Rosie Mole is Pauline and Mr. Lucas' baby girl.

Other characters

• Bert Baxter (Bill Fraser) is Adrian's old age pensioner friend. He lives with Queenie in a bungalow.
• Queenie Baxter (Doris Hare) is Bert Baxter's wife, who later dies of a stroke.
• Pandora Braithwaite (Lindsey Stagg) is Adrian's girlfriend.
• Tania Braithwaite (Louise Jameson) is Pandora's liberal-minded mother.
• Ivan Braithwaite (Robin Herford) is Pandora's father.
• Nigel Partridge (Steven Mackintosh) is Adrian's best friend.
• Barry Kent (Chris Gascoyne) is a bully at Adrian's school who becomes friends with Adrian.
• Mr. Lucas (Paul Greenwood) is the Moles' former neighbour with whom Pauline had an affair.
• Doreen 'Stick Insect' Slater (Su Elliot) is a woman with whom Adrian's father George has an affair while his wife is in Sheffield with Mr. Lucas.

Episodes

#	Episode	Writer	Director	Original airdate
1	Episode One	Patrick Barlow	Peter Sasdy	5 January 1987
2	Episode Two	Patrick Barlow	Peter Sasdy	12 January 1987
3	Episode Three	Patrick Barlow	Peter Sasdy	19 January 1987
4	Episode Four	Patrick Barlow	Peter Sasdy	26 January 1987
5	Episode Five	Patrick Barlow	Peter Sasdy	2 February 1987
6	Episode Six	Patrick Barlow	Peter Sasdy	9 February 1987

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