The Alternative

The story

Unmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a woman's magazine, she decides to have her baby and take leave from her job. Caught between her ex-lover and a colleague who wants to marry her, Melanie must find a solution or an alternative to her problem. When she falls in love with a woman, she questions the value of the traditional value unit.

Cast & crew

Wendy HughesMelanie Hilton

Carla HoogeveenLinda

Tony BonnerPeter

Alwyn KurtsDoherty

Don ReidSurgeon

Betty Lucas

Betty LucasMelanie's Mother

Ken GoodletMelanie's Father

Mary Mackay

Mary MackayMrs. Millbank

Robert BruningPhotographer (uncredited)

Anne HaddyHelen (uncredited)

Jackie Rees

Jackie ReesJune (uncredited)

Peter Adams

Peter AdamsNoel Denning