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About Face (1989)

About Face poster
Genre
sitcom
Country
United Kingdom
Length
2 seasons, 12 episodes
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Each episode is a separate story with a different group of characters. Maureen Lipman plays the lead role in every installment.

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What happens

About Face is a British sitcom consisting of twelve unconnected half-hour episodes starring Maureen Lipman. Each episode featured a guest cast of familiar personalities. The first set of six installments was broadcast in November–December 1989 and the second set in January–February 1991. The episodes were written by Richard Harris, Geoffrey Perkins, Chips Hardy and John Henderson, Astrid Ronning, John Wells, Paul Smith and Terry Kyan, Jack Rosenthal (Lipman's husband), Carol Bunyan, as well as Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. It was made for the ITV network by Central Independent Television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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