It's Awfully Bad For Your Eyes, Darling

Genre

sitcom

Country

United Kingdom

How it feels

Four posh young women share a flat in London in the early 1970s. The show follows their social lives and romantic entanglements.

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What happens

It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling was a BBC television sitcom which ran for a single series of six episodes in November–December 1971, after a pilot in April 1971 shown in Comedy Playhouse. Written by Jilly Cooper and Christopher Bond, it was about four posh young women sharing a flat in London. They were played by Jane Carr ("Pudding"), Joanna Lumley ("Samantha"), Elizabeth Knight ("Clover") and Jennifer Croxton ("Virginia"); Jeremy Lloyd played a boyfriend. The series producer was Leon Thau. Only the first episode of the series ("A New Lease") exists in the archives; the pilot and the rest of the series are missing. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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