The Plane Makers

The Plane Makers

Don Henderson

John Wilder

Kay Lingard

Arthur Sugden

Henry Forbes

Sir Gordon Revidge

Scott Furlong was loosely based on Handley Page Ltd., a small Hertfordshire aircraft manufacturing company formed in 1909, and which went into voluntary liquidation in 1970. Producer Rex Firkin instructed writers Geoffrey Bellman and John Whitney to prepare a document on the firm, which was given to prospective writers as an example of the set-up.

Ann Firbank temporarily replaced Barbara Murray as Pamela Wilder when the original actress was unable to attend recordings whilst recovering from a health-related incident. Firbank made all four of Pamela's appearances in the final run, before the original actress resumed the role later in the year in continuation series The Power Game (1965).

Sixteen out of the seventeen editions made for the first series are not known to survive in the archives. The sole exception is the opener, "Don't Worry About Me".