Catch Hand

I remember this series with fondness. As I remember they were young roofers working carefree out in the sun. Chasing girls for the most part. I was working in a fairly staid office at the time and I can remember one of the female typists saying "You'd like to be a catch hand" (when I told her I liked the program). I think it caught the spirit that two years later would become the hippies.

For any young person who hadn't got a good job this was a road to freedom.

It offered a brief hiatus in the sun for those young people among us weighed down with the prospect of marriage and mortgage on the horizon.

We have to make it ten lines for a review? Wow, that's quite an order for a forty year old T.V. program I can hardly remember. Your review guidelines seem a bit strict. The nearest thing to it in modern T.V. would probably be "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" which I also loved, though I think Catch Hand had an innocence to it that surpassed even that classic series. If those nine lost episodes could be found it would make a great DVD.

Enjoyed Catch Hand after watching the series when I was a young teenager. Both main actors in the series were young men enjoying a free and easy life travelling on the road and enjoying adventures. I wrote to Anthony Booth saying how much I enjoyed the programme and received a lovely two page letter back from him on green notepaper. I later found out it was written at a time when he was living in London and was probably feeling very lonely.