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The Girls of Slender Means

The Girls of Slender Means

★ 3.7/10•1975•50m•Drama
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The Girls of Slender Means is a 1975 BBC television mini-series based on Muriel Spark's novel. The drama, aired in three parts, follows a group of young women living in a London boarding house in 1945, and is framed by a death that occurs in 1960.

Moira Armstrong · Director

Ken Taylor · Writer

StatusEnded
Runtime50m
LanguageEN
First Air DateMay 3, 1975

Episodes

E150m

Episode 1

In London 1945, when a world and a war were winding up with a bang, all the nice people were poor - especially the girls of the May of Teck Club fighting it out to the last clothing coupon.

May 3, 1975

E250m

Episode 2

Poor, but savage, the girls of the May of Teck welcome Nicholas Farringdon , handsome anarchist and self-proclaimed genius, who is introduced to the club by Jane.

May 10, 1975

E350m

Episode 3

Selina has claimed Nicholas from Jane who is too big for the lavatory window, the gateway to romance on the roof. Soon it's to become a way of life or death.

May 17, 1975

Actors

Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes

Jane Wright

Patricia Hodge

Patricia Hodge

Anne Baberton

Mary Tamm

Mary Tamm

Selina Redwood

James Laurenson

James Laurenson

Nicholas Farringdon

Jack Shepherd

Jack Shepherd

Rudi Bittesch

Judith Paris

Judith Paris

Pauline Fox

Tony Millan

Tony Millan

Ernest Claymore

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