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Love On A Branch Line. Jasper Pye (Michael Maloney). Copyright: DLT Entertainment Ltd.
Love On A Branch Line

Love On A Branch Line

  • TV comedy drama
  • BBC One
  • 1994
  • 4 episodes (1 series)

A bored and boring civil servant escapes Whitehall to a rural idyll, quickly falling in love with the local scenery and way of life. Stars Michael Maloney, Leslie Phillips, Maria Aitken, Graham Crowden, Abigail Cruttenden and more.

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Love On A Branch Line. Image shows from L to R: Matilda (Charlotte Williams), Jasper Pye (Michael Maloney), Chloe (Cathryn Harrison), Belinda (Abigail Cruttenden). Copyright: DLT Entertainment Ltd.

Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
1994
Channel
BBC 1
Episodes
4 (1 series)
Stars
Michael Maloney, Leslie Phillips, Maria Aitken, Graham Crowden, Abigail Cruttenden, Cathryn Harrison, Charlotte Williams, Stephen Moore and more
Writers
John Hadfield and David Nobbs
Director
Martyn Friend
Producers
Jacqueline Davis, John Reynolds, Alan Strachan and Ron Purdie
Companies

Civil servant Jasper Pye has been denounced as boring by his girlfriend. He therefore decides to quit his job and to become an artist in Paris. His superiors have other ideas however; they decide that he is the perfect man to be sent to dismantle a government statistical research unit.

The unit is housed in a stately home and Jasper is soon distracted by the three daughters of owner Lord Flamborough. He finds himself cast headlong into the local lifestyle.

Additional details

Production
Location
Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Colour

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Sunday 12th June 1994 at 9:10pm on BBC One

Recording details

  • Oxburgh Hall - Location of Arcady Hall exteriors.
  • Heydon (Norfolk) - Village.
  • Chawton House and Penshurst Place

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