[2] Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison head the cast as factory worker Joe Huggett and his wife Ethel, with Petula Clark, Jane Hylton and Susan Shaw as their young daughters (all with the same first names as the actresses portraying them) and Amy Veness as their opinionated grandmother.

Factory worker Joe Huggett has a first-time telephone installed at home, for work purposes, but his daughters quickly find a lot more use for it.

He was ambitious to do other work but Box offered him Here Come the Huggetts, featuring characters in the popular Holiday Camp, directed by Annakin.

"I had to delay my dreams and ideas for ‘great films’, and churn out the Huggett series, because Sydney needed them," wrote Annakin later.

Dinah Sheridan, Jane Hilton, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark and Diana Dors were a great team and fun to work with as well.