All posts tagged "Posh families"

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  Upstairs, Downstairs

  THE IMPERIAL Leather of costume soap combining the best and worst of rich people and their servants with lots of dressing up

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  Box of Delights, The

  "HAVE YOU HAD YOUR POSSET, KAY?"

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  Pallisers, The

  MASSIVE OVERDOSE of Anthony Trollope historama

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  Country: A Tory Story

  July 1945, shortly after the election, and aristocratic Kentish brewing dynasty the Carlions are gathering for a christening...

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  Charades

  By Antonia Fraser. Below and above stairs relations in a Scottish manor house, presided over by Martin Jarvis.

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  Brideshead Revisited

  POSH TOFFS of the 1920s fancy themselves

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  Blott on the Landscape

  "ROLLICKING" TOM-SHARPERY

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  Traveller in Time, A

  FUSTY PERIOD-SWAPPING kids drama

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  Barriers

  BAFFLING KIDS DRAMA about a public schoolboy (just for a change)

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  Paradise Postponed

  JOHN MORTIMER swaps a swig of BAILEY for a hefty helping of post-war decline-and-fall histrionics adapted from his own novel and layered...

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  Cedar Tree, The

  YAWNSOME MID-AFTERNOON serial about some 1930s toffs in a country house.

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  Glittering Prizes, The

  CAMBRIDGIAN UNDERGRADUATION, fifties style.

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  Mother Love

  DIANA RIGG, looking alarmingly like RONNIE CORBETT, obsesses maternally over her offspring Kit

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  Vice Versa

  ATTENTUATED ATTEMPT to create a UK version of BIG JOHN LITTLE JOHN.

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  Moon Stallion

  MEANDERING MOPERY serving up your usual BBC 70s kids drama courses of period costumers, suggestions of ghosts, evil relations, mystical artefacts and...

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  Mapp and Lucia

  TWITTERING TWOSOME raise havoc in a decorous 1920s village populated with the likes of NIGEL HAWTHORNE.

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  Horse in the House

  Kids drama involving a posh girl in a large mansion where shenanigans are going down.

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  Fell Tiger

  NEAR-PROTOTYPE FOR the soon-to-follow HOWARD'S WAY

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  Flaxton Boys, The

  GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER of every Sunday teatime period drama adaptation ever.

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  Horses Galore

  MORE FOAL PLAY, this time by way of a kids equinestravaganza

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  Dynasty

  SOUTHFORK MAY have been Wogan's favourite Wednesday night residence, but this was his Friday evening fancy and no mistake.

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  Paddington

  WORLD'S MOST famous sporter of the duffle coat until L. Gallagher.

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  Ask the Family

  THE HOME COUNTIES' most preposterously erudite home-owners starred in this audience-free parlour-esque intellectual joustathon.