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Overview

his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her large flock of middle-aged children. The family is chagrined by, but honors, her choice to live a modest country retirement at some distance, in Hampstead Heath. Lady Slane competently comes to terms to lease and restore a crumbling house, aided by an aging land agent Gervase Bucktrout (Maurice Denham). Once settled, an acquaintance from 50 years past, Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews), visits the cottage to rekindle memories of their brief, deep, but unfulfilled brush as soul-mates in colonial India when Lady Slane was a devoted young wife and mother. Great-granddaughter Deborah (Jane Snowden), who has been trapped by a socially desirable but passionless engagement, regularly visits to confide and seek wisdom.

Cast

• Name: Wendy Hiller

  Character: Lady Slane

  Popularity: 0.7249

  

• Name: Harry Andrews

  Character: Mr. Fitzgeorge

  Popularity: 0.8267

  

• Name: Maurice Denham

  Character: Gervase Bucktrout

  Popularity: 0.6992

  

• Name: Phyllis Calvert

  Character: Carrie

  Popularity: 0.3018

  

• Name: Graham Crowden

  Character: Herbert

  Popularity: 0.6663

  

• Name: John Franklyn-Robbins

  Character: Kay

  Popularity: 0.4257

  

• Name: Geoffrey Bayldon

  Character: William

  Popularity: 0.5605

  

• Name: Faith Brook

  Character: Lavinia

  Popularity: 0.4035