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Love in a Cold Climate (1980)

Love in a Cold Climate poster
Directed by
Donald McWhinnie
Genre
drama
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 8 episodes
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Following a group of upper-class British families through the 1920s and 1930s, the story focuses on a young woman navigating love and society. Her eccentric relatives and friends pursue marriages and scandals while the threat of war looms in the background.

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What happens

Love in a Cold Climate is a 1980 British television series produced by Thames Television. It is an adaptation of the Nancy Mitford novels The Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate (1949), set between 1924 and 1940, with a screenplay adaptation by Simon Raven. It was originally broadcast on the ITV network in eight episodes. The series starred Lucy Gutteridge, Rosalyn Landor, Michael Aldridge, Judi Dench, Vivian Pickles and Jean-Pierre Cassel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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