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1 November 1981 (UK) more
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Respectable British sitcom from Independent Television about the middle-class in their middle-age. Short-lived (26 episodes) but much admired... more
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4 wins & 9 nominations more
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underestimate gem more (12 total)

Cast

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Judi Dench ... Laura Dalton / ... (26 episodes, 1981-1984)
Michael Williams ... Mike Selway / ... (26 episodes, 1981-1984)
Susan Penhaligon ... Helen Barker / ... (23 episodes, 1981-1984)
Richard Warwick ... Phil Barker / ... (23 episodes, 1981-1984)
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30 min (26 episodes)
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At a party given by her sister Helen (Susan Penhaligon) in the first episode, Laura (Judi Dench) is reading the novel "Bouquet Of Barbed Wire", which had been dramatized for television five years earlier starring Penhaligon. The edition Laura is reading features Susan Penhaligon on the book's front cover and Dench makes a knowing reference to this by peering confusedly at the picture as if to indicate the face in it looks very familiar to Laura more
Quotes:
Mike Selway: You've been crying.
Laura Dalton: No, I have not.
Mike Selway: What's that water running down your face?
Laura Dalton: I'm leaking.
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underestimate gem, 26 October 2008
8/10
Author: selffamily from New Zealand

It's intriguing to me that many of the really good programmes were made in the 70s and 80s. This is a comfortable and funny situation comedy which grows on one like the rambling roses that the landscape gardener would add to his plans. One starts watching, thinking will it be worth it, I haven't seen it for years, and then click! suddenly it reveals its comedy wickedly and hooks you right in there. I can't see any fault in Judi Dench in Comedy - she manages Shakespeare's comedies OK.

If you don't need guns and gossip, this is for you.

Footnote, I had no idea they were supposed to be 37 and 43. I agree, why pretend to be younger? It works very well with ignorance.

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