
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1984 - 1986
- Channel
- ITV
- Episodes
- 27 (4 series)
- Starring
- Julia McKenzie, Anton Rodgers, Ann Beach, Fanny Rowe, Ballard Berkeley and Debby Cumming
- Writer
- John Chapman
- Director
- Peter Frazer-Jones
- Producer
- Peter Frazer-Jones
Hester and William Fields are a happily married, middle-aged, middle-class couple.
When their daughter Emma leaves home to live with her boyfriend, Peter, Hester becomes increasingly bored. Whilst William runs a small accountacy firm in the City, she ends up taking on a wide-ranging succession of activities, in a constant drive for self-improvement and variety in her life.
She juggles her array of adult education classes, community events and sporting past-times with running around after her elderly mother (who lives in a self-contained flat at the end of the garden) and gossipping with next-door neighbour Sonia.
- Production company
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Wednesday 7th March 1984 on ITV at 8:30pm
- Last new broadcast
- Thursday 23rd October 1986 on ITV at 7:30pm
- Upcoming repeats
- Series 2 Episode 6: Today at 5:25pm on Drama
- Series 3 Episode 1: Tomorrow at 5:25pm on Drama
- Series 3 Episode 2: Thursday at 5:25pm on Drama
- Series 3 Episode 3: Friday at 5:25pm on Drama
- Series 3 Episode 4: Monday at 5:25pm on Drama
- Series 3 Episode 5: Tuesday 20th April at 5:25pm on Drama
- Series 3 Episode 6: Wednesday 21st April at 5:25pm on Drama
- Series 3 Episode 7: Thursday 22nd April at 5:20pm on Drama
- Series 4 Episode 1: Friday 23rd April at 5:25pm on Drama
- Series 4 Episode 2: Monday 26th April at 5:25pm on DramaShow all repeats
- Series 4 Episode 3: Tuesday 27th April at 5:25pm on Drama
- Series 4 Episode 4: Wednesday 28th April at 5:25pm on Drama
- Series 4 Episode 5: Thursday 29th April at 5:25pm on Drama
- Series 4 Episode 6: Friday 30th April at 5:25pm on Drama