All Passion Spent (1986)

Episode One

(1986)

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| TV Episode | United Kingdom | Colour | Drama
| Stars: Wendy Hiller, Harry Andrews, Maurice Denham
| S1 E1 | 9th December, 1986

Lady Slane plans to reassert her independence, following the death of Lord Slane and a lifetime of supporting her husband’s career as the Viceroy of India, Prime Minister and elder statesman

All Passion Spent (1986)
After a lifetime in the spotlight, Lady Slane – the 85-year-old wife of a recently deceased politician – is allowed to shed her public persona and retreat to a cottage in suburban Hampstead.

Episode cast

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British actress Wendy Hiller in a photograph from Carol Reed’s 1951 film, Outcast of the Islands
Lady Slane
Death on the Nile (1978) screenshot (1) | Harry Andrews
Harry Andrews
Fitzgeorge
Maurice Denham, English actor, photograph (1)
Maurice Denham
Bucktrout
Glamorous British film star Phyllis Calvert wears a shawl as she smokes a cigarette. A 1940s studio publicity photo for Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945).
Carrie
Graham Crowden
Herbert
John Franklyn-robbins
Kay
Hilary Mason
Edith
Faith Brook
Lavinia
Geoffrey Bayldon
William
Antonia Pemberton
Mabel
Eileen Way
Genoux
Jane Snowden
Deborah
John Saunders
Parker
Katherine Stark
Caretaker
Alan Thompson
Club Porter
Mair Coleman
Maid
John Bott
Lord Slane
David Rolfe
Messenger
Chris Samsworth
Journalist
Ken Morley
Journalist
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Production

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Colin Rogers
Producer
Martyn Friend
Director
Peter Buckman
Writer (dramatised by)
Vita Sackville-West
Writer (novel)