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Series · 1995–Returning

Tears Before Bedtime

7.0·1 season·4 episodes·50 min avg.

A story of middle-class professional couples who employ full-time live-in nannies to look after their children. The nannies meet up as a collective group, and often discuss their employers' habits in sordid detail. As the plot develops, it becomes clear that most of the nannies are usually stuck in the middle of domestic unsettlement, affairs, neurotic partners, and manipulation.

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Episode 1
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Jan 8, 1995

Sarah and David are the last of the group to succumb to hiring a nanny but, when confidences are broken on both sides, romantic betrayal and revenge lead to all-out domestic warfare. And trouble awaits them all when the nanny mafia moves into action.

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Episode 2
Episode 2
Jan 15, 1995

Who is Stuart having an affair with? The nannies investigate. Sarah finds herself in an increasingly fraught entanglement with Ben and Katherine.

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Episode 3
Episode 3
Jan 22, 1995

Beattie and Stuart's marriage is deteriorating, and Lisa is out for revenge.

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Episode 4
Episode 4
Jan 29, 1995

In the final part of the dark comedy, Sarah and David find their marriage and friendship tested to the limit while the "nanny mafia" plot to save the day.

Cast

20 credited
Samantha Bond
Sarah Baylis
Adrian Rawlins
David Baylis
ER
Emily Ruck-Keene
Lily Baylis
JG
Julius Grower
William Baylis
Julie Cox
Katherine
Lesley Manville
Beattie Freeman
Richard Hope
Stuart Freeman
Guy Witcher
Hugo Freeman
AC
Antonia Corrigan
Allegra Freeman
LB
Louise Beattie
Maureen

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