Off to Philadelphia in the Morning (TV series)

Off to Philadelphia in the Morning is a 1978 BBC three-part television drama series based on the book of the same name by Jack Jones to a screenplay by Elaine Morgan.

The series of three 50 minute episodes was made by BBC Cymru Wales and produced and directed by John Hefin.

[1] The cast primarily featured Welsh actors while Gareth Ridgewell Whiley (born 1967), who played Joseph Parry as a boy, was living in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales where he was attending school.

[2] Having persuaded his wife, Daniel Parry and his family have settled in America, but young Joseph Parrys's ambitious wife Jane urges him to seek musical fame in London where during a performance of Rigoletto he encounters his old boyhood friend Myfanwy Llewellyn, who now calls herself Lina Van Elyn.

In London he ignores the advice of Sir William Sterndale Bennett and returns to Wales as Professor of Music at Aberystwyth.