She

1 9 7 7 (UK)
6 x 60 minute episodes

This anthology series of six plays created by Richard Doubleday for London Weekend Television was inspired by the success of the 1973 series Seven Faces of Women and its title song, She, by Charles Aznavour, and featured stories about women passing through key periods in their lives.

In ‘Carol’, Judy Geeson starred as a lonely, pregnant barmaid who had to keep up her image as the “best barmaid in town” even though her regular customers knew she was going to have a baby by Terry (Jonathan Newth), a customer who refused to support her.

Liz Fraser starred as Delilah, a failed actress and ageing model in ‘Sight Unseen’ alongside Richard O’Callaghan as a partly-blind artist named Sam who believed her to still be young and beautiful. The crisis came when he announced he was to have an operation to improve his sight.

In ‘A Girl in Gold Shoes’, lively, pleasure-seeking Linda (Lois Daine) goes alone to a party hosted by her husband’s rich and handsome boss, Mark Maddison (Dinsdale Landen), while her staid but faithful husband, Trevor (Julian Holloway), is out of town. She is strongly attracted to Mark and stays behind after all the other guests have left.  Everything runs smoothly until Trevor arrives unexpectedly.

Rosemary McHale donned a false nose for her role in ‘Eye of The Beholder’ of a girl with a fine figure but a face that was marred particularly by a broken nose. Poldark star Robin Ellis was the model agency owner who felt he could do something about her appearance.

Beth Porter starred in the black comedy ‘Anxious Anne’ as a neurotic children’s author having a spectacular nervous breakdown and beginning to act like one of her fictional characters. When her editor (Phyllida Law) arrives at the author’s flat, she finds the most bizarre array of visitors, including man-eating women’s libber Buzz (Julie Covington); Joe (Donald Sumpter), an aggressively masculine BBC cameraman whose nickname is “the ram”, and a lunatic sculptress named Fritzie (Lynda Marchal).

Florence Thurley (Clare Kelly) lives alone in a seedy bedsitter above her small bric-a-brac shop in ‘The Barfly’, where her only regular visitor is her son James (Martin Jarvis), who has been helping with her business affairs in return for half the profits. But now, his ambitious wife Rita (Valerie Minifie) has persuaded him to move away from the area and wants him to relinquish his interest in the shop. One evening at her local pub, Florence meets a young archaeologist named Eric Vincent (Peter Geddis).

Other actors in the six episodes of She included Norman Bird, Maria Charles, Judy Buxton, Lynda La Plante, Sarah Douglas, Freddie Earlle, and Denis Lawson.

Episodes

Carol | Sight Unseen | A Girl in Gold Shoes | Eye of the Beholder | Anxious Anne | The Barfly