Ballet Shoes (1975) (Bbc)

Six-part BBC drama based on the children's novel by Noel Streatfeild. The show tells the tale of Pauline (Elizabeth Morgan), Petrova (Jane Slaughter) and Posy Fossil (Sarah Prince), who are adopted by an eccentric explorer and sent to live with his great-niece Sylvia Brown (Angela Thorne). When Sylvia also welcomes a dance teacher into her home the girls are accepted into her school where they try to fulfil their dreams; Pauline longs to be an actress, Petrova yearns to be an aviator, and Posy seems born to be a ballerina.