This short-lived late-night BBC 2 drama introduced two female ex-convicts – Carla Yates (Lou Wakefield), who has just been released after a three-year stretch for smuggling cocaine, and her former cellmate, Polish prostitute Beverly Grabowski (Gwyneth Strong, who would go on to play Cassandra in Only Fools and Horses).
The two girls decide to set up an agency (the Excell Agency), devoted to finding employment for prisoners upon their release.
Michael Thomas co-starred as the slightly unbelievably gullible, upper-class probation officer Max Stratton-Jones in his flash sports car and white dinner suit. Philip Sayer was Carla’s off-beat, laidback American doctor husband, Lloyd.
Carla Yates
Lou Wakefield Beverly Grabowski
Gwyneth Strong Max Stratton-Jones
Michael Thomas Lloyd Yates
Philip Sayer Betty
Valerie Buchanan Brian
Richard Graham Mary
Doreen Keogh Ben
Ian Lindsay Alfie
Alec Wallis Shakira
Indira Joshi Leon
David Doyle Uncle Jerzy
Mark Malicz Tommy Winstone
Christopher Ryan
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