About Face
About Face is a series of twelve unconnected half-hour sitcoms all starring Maureen Lipman in the lead role. Each episode featured a guest cast of well known actors and actresses. The episodes were written by Richard Harris, Geoffrey Perkins, Chips Hardy & John Henderson, Astrid Ronning, John Wells, Paul Smith & Terry Kyan, Jack Rosenthal, Carol Bunyan and Ian Hislop & Nick Newman. It was made for the ITV network by Central Independent Television.
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0% doneCarol, a South London telephonist, becomes obsessed by flamenco dancing, which brings to an end her relationship with boyfriend Trevor.
Helen exacts revenge on her philandering husband Michael, a Member of Parliament, when the press interview her.
Gracie, a Cypriot immigrant, is a cloakroom attendant in a London club. But the celebrations to mark her quarter of a century there are altered by the arrival of Jessica, an American film star.
Patience, an American theatre stage manager, attends a first-night party that improves her morale.
PM Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis fall victim to a kidnapping plot while on holiday.
Wendy the Bag Lady wanders the streets of London in search of furniture she believes she lost to the Prime Minister thirty years ago.
