Spring & Autumn
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 1972 - 1976
- 26 episodes (4 series)
Comedy about the friendship between a septuagenarian and a teenager, giving both a new chance and lease of life. Stars Jimmy Jewel, Charlie Hawkins, June Barry, Larry Martyn and Jo Warne
Press clippings
Spring and Autumn looks as if it were made without love or money. You can manage without one or the other, but you'd better not try to do without both.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 21st May 1976"Spring and Autumn" when it began was a pleasantly sentimental story about the alliance of an old man evicted from his demolished home and a young boy from a broken home. It had a kind of charm. The second series last night had a lot of plot.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 25th July 1974"Spring and Autumn" is a surprisingly good egg. Not hard boiled, of course, but not, as one had feared, all runny. To get an egg just nicely right is difficult enough, so let's hear it for the cooks: director Ronnie Baxter, Jimmy Jewel as the old man and an engaging boy, all teeth and backchat, called Charlie Hawkins, a sort of Jack Wild Mark II.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 17th July 1973