All Passion Spent (1986)

Episode Three

(1986)

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| TV Episode | United Kingdom | Colour | Drama
| Stars: Wendy Hiller, Harry Andrews, Maurice Denham
| S1 E3 | 23rd December, 1986

After more than half a century in the role of a dutiful wife, Lady Slane enjoys the company of her new-found friends

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
Jane Snowden
Deborah
John Franklyn-robbins
Kay
David Waller
Gosheron
Eileen Way
Genoux
Hilary Mason
Edith
Antonia Pemberton
Mabel
Faith Brook
Lavinia
Geoffrey Bayldon
William
Patrick Barlow
Foljambe
Andrew Burt
Police Sergeant
Alan Thompson
Club Porter
Andrew Normington
Policeman
Mair Coleman
Maid
Wilfred Grove
Reporter
Bill McCabe
Reporter
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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)