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No Frills (1988)

No Frills poster
Genre
sitcom
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 7 episodes
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A recently widowed woman moves from Oldham to London to live with her divorced daughter and goth granddaughter. They adjust to each other's ways in a new household.

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What happens

No Frills is a television sitcom broadcast on BBC1 in 1988, and consisted of 7 episodes. It starred Kathy Staff as Molly Bickerstaff, a recently widowed woman who moves from Oldham to live in London with her divorced daughter Kate (Belinda Sinclair) and goth granddaughter Suzy (Katharine Schlesinger). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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