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Screaming. Image shows from L to R: Beatrice (Penelope Wilton), Annie (Gwen Taylor), Rachael (Jill Baker). Copyright: BBC
Screaming

Screaming

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1992
  • 8 episodes (1 series)

Carla Lane comedy following three middle-aged women, former school-friends and now sharing a home together, who've all unknowingly slept with the same man. Also features Gwen Taylor, Penelope Wilton, Jill Baker, Tim Berrington, Lucy Briers and more.

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Screaming. Image shows from L to R: Beatrice (Penelope Wilton), Annie (Gwen Taylor), Rachael (Jill Baker). Copyright: BBC

Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
1992
Channel
BBC 1
Episodes
8 (1 series)
Stars
Gwen Taylor, Penelope Wilton, Jill Baker, Tim Berrington, Lucy Briers, Charlotte Barker, Jackie Downey, Katy Newell and more
Writer
Carla Lane
Director
Mike Stephens
Producers
Mike Stephens and Carla Lane
Company

Beatrice, a single woman in early middle age, has just inherited a house from her late parents, having given up the best years of her own life to ensure their longevity. Moving in with her are Annie, an ever-youthful fortysomething on the road to divorce, who has been forced out of the flat she shared with her daughter and her boyfriend, plus Rachael, a self-deluding romantic in her thirties, who works as a keep-fit trainer at a women's psychiatric hospital.

Very soon, however, it becomes clear that the three women have something very important in common, and his name is Ralph. Ralph used to be Rachael's boyfriend but, it seems, had affairs with both Beatrice and Annie. Although he is seldom seen, the deceitful Ralph continues to dominate all their lives, and a glimpse of him in the street is enough to raise emotions to fever pitch in the house. At such times, it is usually Beatrice, a level-headed philosophy graduate with a dry wit, who ends up peace-making, though in their heads at least these three women will always be screaming.

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Studio
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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Sunday 15th March 1992 at 9:05pm on BBC One

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