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Plain Sailing

Show

The Duchess of Duke Street

Season1
Episode14
Rating
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Air Date1976-12-04
Runtime50 mins

Overview

The Duchess of Duke Street is a British television period drama created and written by John Hawkesworth, loosely based on the real-life career of Rosa Lewis, and produced by the BBC and Time-Life Television Productions for BBC One. The programme ran for two series from 1976 to 1977. In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.

Season 1 Episodes

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1

A Present Sovereign

1976-09-04

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2

Honour and Obey

1976-09-11

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3

A Nice Class of Premises

1976-09-18

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4

The Bargain

1976-09-25

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5

A Bed of Roses

1976-10-02

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6

For Love or Money

1976-10-09

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7

A Lady of Virtue

1976-10-16

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8

Trouble and Strife

1976-10-23

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9

The Outsiders

1976-10-30

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10

Lottie's Boy

1976-11-06

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11

No Letters, No Lawyers

1976-11-13

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12

A Matter of Honour

1976-11-20

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13

One Night's Grace

1976-11-27

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14

Plain Sailing

1976-12-04

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15

A Test of Love

1976-12-11

Cast & Crew

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John Welsh

as Merriman

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John Cater

as Starr

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Mary Healey

as Mrs Cochrane

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Christopher Cazenove

as Charles Haslemere

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Sammie Winmill

as Ethel

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Patrick Newell

as Tommy Shepherd

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Anthony Roye

as Hugo 'Saffron' Walden

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Ernest Hare

as Admiral Swain

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Jan Francis

as Irene Baker

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Peter Graves

as Sir Evelyn Grant-Wortley

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Margaretta Scott

as Lady Blenkiron

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Noel Coleman

as Sir Reginald Blenkiron

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Venetia Maxwell

as The Honourable Mrs Sibley

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Robert Mill

as Colonel Sibley

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Toni Palmer

as Mrs Delaney

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Donald Pelmear

as Major Gutch

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Rosamund Greenwood

as The Duchess

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Edwin Brown

as Wilkins

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Terence Brook

as Hawkins

Seasons

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S1

Series 1

15 Episodes

1976

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S2

Series 2

16 Episodes

1977