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COLLECTION · Series · 1979

Agony

Agony is a British sitcom produced by LWT for ITV, broadcast from 1979 to 1981. It stars Maureen Lipman as successful agony aunt Jane Lucas, whose own personal life and marriage is a disaster. It was written by Len Richmond, Anna Raeburn, Stan Hey and Andrew Nickolds. Although a comedy, Agony sometimes dealt with taboo issues such as drug use, racism, abortion, interracial relationships, and swinging, and was the first British sitcom to portray a gay couple as non-camp, witty, intelligent and happy people. It also openly mocked the government, the ruling classes, and religion, and occasionally contained dark and dramatic storylines.

Source: TMDB
* 6.1 (8)ComedyDramaUnited Kingdom
Creators
Anna Raeburn · Len Richmond
Countries
United Kingdom
Studios
ITV1 · LWT
Runtime
30 min/ep
Release
11/03/1979
Score
6.1 / 10 (8)
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Seasons and episodes
Series 1
6 episodes · 1979
Episode 1. Help
1979-03-11 · 30 min

Jane Lucas, overworked advice columnist for Person magazine, tries to cope with her usual hectic schedule as she advises a shy transvestite and takes a phone call from her husband informing her he's leaving her.

Episode 2. An Unmarried Couple
1979-03-18 · 30 min

Jane tries to get use to being alone and to deal with the reactions from an avid press and an overwrought mother.

Episode 3. Conjugal Wrongs
1979-03-25 · 30 min

Laurence returns when Jane agrees to try some mechanical assistance for their lovemaking.

Episode 4. Wedlock, Deadlock
1979-04-08 · 30 min

Laurence's interest in another woman at the hospital where he works prompts him to suggest that he and Jane have an open marriage agreement.

Episode 5. Forever and Never
1979-04-15 · 30 min

Jane tries to balance Laurence's demands for attention with Michael and Rob's need for her to mediate a quarrel.

Episode 6. Too Much Agony, Too Little Ecstasy
1979-04-29 · 30 min

Jane celebrates her birthday by taking the advice she's been giving to another woman; she leaves Laurence.

Series 2
7 episodes · 1980
Episode 1. Back to Reality
1980-04-13 · 30 min

Jane returns from vacation and decides to start dating again, but sees Laurence on a tape at a video-dating service talking about how much he loves his wife.

Episode 2. Working Girls
1980-04-20 · 30 min

Val threatens to moonlight in one of Vincent Fish's erotic films when Diana refuses to give her a raise.

Episode 3. Coming Out... and Going In Again?
1980-04-27 · 30 min

Michael appears anonymously on Jane's radio show to answer questions about the homosexual lifestyle, but Junior's blunder exposes his identity with devastating consequences.

Episode 4. Television Can Damage Your Health
1980-05-04 · 30 min

Jane tries another medium when she makes a television pilot that goes completely off course.

Episode 5. Problem Parents
1980-05-11 · 30 min

Jane helps Rob explain his homosexuality to his parents and advises her mother about a smitten Junior Truscombe.

Episode 6. Second Time Around
1980-05-18 · 30 min

A religiously reformed Andy Evol returns and both he and Jane return to Happening Radio when Junior falls ill.

Episode 7. A Woman Alone
1980-05-25 · 30 min

Jane is taken hostage during her radio show by a reader unhappy with her advice.

Series 3
7 episodes · 1981
Episode 1. From Here to Maternity
1981-01-18 · 30 min

Jane encounters a broad range of opposition when she decides to stop working and be a full time wife and mother.

Episode 2. Arrivals and Departures
1981-01-25 · 30 min

Jane and Laurence wait for their baby while attending a baby care class run by a strange woman and trying to help Michael deal with a fight with Rob.

Episode 3. Hospital Romances
1981-02-01 · 30 min

Jane continues helping people from her hospital bed as a black nurse faces the anger of her superior and Val runs off with Andy Evol.

Episode 4. Communications Breakdown
1981-02-08 · 30 min

Jane's investigation into group therapy uncovers a problem in her marriage and in that of Val and Andy.

Episode 5. Holy Wars
1981-02-15 · 30 min

Jane and Laurence's quarrel over having young Michael circumcised uncovers hidden prejudices.

Episode 6. Lucas v Lucas
1981-02-22 · 30 min

Jane and Laurence grow farther apart when their baby is kidnapped by a disturbed man.

Episode 7. Rings Off Their Fingers
1981-03-01 · 30 min

Laurence tries to win Jane back and she throws a New Year's Eve party that promises to change many people's lives.

Cast by season
Maureen Lipman
Maureen Lipman
Jane Lucas
Simon Williams
Simon Williams
Laurence Lucas
Maria Charles
Maria Charles
Bea Fisher
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Diana Weston
Val Dunn
Jeremy Bulloch
Jeremy Bulloch
Rob Illingworth
Peter Blake
Peter Blake
Andy Evol
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