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Executive Stress. Image shows from L to R: Caroline Fairchild (Penelope Keith), Donald Fairchild (Geoffrey Palmer). Copyright: Thames Television
Executive Stress

Executive Stress

  • TV sitcom
  • ITV1
  • 1986 - 1988
  • 19 episodes (3 series)

Sitcom about a publishing executive who returns to work after raising children for almost 30 years, and finds herself employed alongside her husband. Stars Penelope Keith, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Bowles, Harry Ditson, Elizabeth Counsell and more.

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Executive Stress. Image shows from L to R: Caroline Fairchild (Penelope Keith), Donald Fairchild (Peter Bowles). Copyright: Thames Television

Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
1986 - 1988
Channel
ITV
Episodes
19 (3 series)
Stars
Penelope Keith, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Bowles, Harry Ditson, Elizabeth Counsell, Timothy Carlton, Mark Caven and David Neville
Writer
George Layton
Directors
John Howard Davies and David Askey
Producers
John Howard Davies and James Gilbert
Company

Caroline Fairchild gave up her job soon after marrying in order to raise hastily-arriving children: nearly 30 years on, and with the house now empty, she's restless to get back into a regular job.

Looking to return to the field of publishing, she unwittingly becomes employed alongside her husband - just as his company is taken over by a new owner with a no-couples policy in place!

Additional details

Production
Studio
Camera set-up
Multi-camera
Picture
Colour
Soundtrack
The theme tune, Remember Why We Fell In Love, was written by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, and performed by Julie Covington.

Website links

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Monday 20th October 1986 at 8pm on ITV1
Most recent repeats
  • Wednesday 7th August 2019 at 12:40am on Forces TV - Series 3, Episode 6
  • Tuesday 6th August 2019 at 11:30am on Forces TV - Series 3, Episode 6
  • Tuesday 6th August 2019 at 12:35am on Forces TV - Series 3, Episode 5

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