A single parent working at the motel seems staid now .
Was hugely controversial in the mid-1960s ; Sandy Richardson was injured in a car accident in 1972 and needed to use a wheelchair , the first paraplegic regular character portrayed in British soap opera .
A single parent working at the motel seems staid now , but was hugely controversial in the mid-1960s ; Sandy Richardson was injured in a car accident in 1972 and needed to use a wheelchair , the first paraplegic regular character portrayed in British soap opera .