For the Love of Ada is an ITV sitcom that ran between 1970 - 1971. Irene Handl and Wilfred Pickles are senior citizens who find that as romance blossoms, so does emotional turmoil. The series gently charts the relationship between Yorkshireman Walter Bingley and Londoner Ada Cresswell, septuagenarians who meet while Ada is visiting her late husband's grave.
The widower
Sunday tea
The permissive society
The football match
Another man
Spring
Wedding plans
Divorce?
Sent to coventry
The birthday
The grave
The elopement
The wedding
After the honeymoon
The journey
Housekeeping
The eviction
A lunchtime drink
The royalist
The mortgage
The baby
Bowling
Birth
The admirer
Insomnia
The christening
Christmas with ada
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