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    Comedy TV Shows - 1980s 1 Min Read

    A Touch of Spice

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    Dawn (Natalie Ogle) and Victoria (Julia Watson) have had enough of bottom-pinching and vegetable-slicing in a posh restaurant (‘Quasimodo’s’) and leave to set up their own gourmet catering service. The pair also share a flat

    The impulsive and streetwise bubbly blonde Dawn and up-market, no-nonsense dark-haired Victoria both have vivaciousness in abundance and are as bubbly as champagne, but that doesn’t stop them getting into endless scrapes in this six-part BBC-1 comedy series.

    Also seen are Victoria’s banker boyfriend, Clive (Martin Jacobs) and her mother Helen (Virginia Stride, stealing scenes with ease).

    Victoria Morrison
    Julia Watson
    Dawn McKenzie
    Natalie Ogle
    Clive
    Martin Jacobs
    Helen
    Virginia Stride

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