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Love on a Branch Line

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First Aired:June 12, 1994

Seasons:1 season

Episodes:4

Status:Returning Series

Love on a Branch Line is a British television adaptation of the 1959 novel Love on a Branch Line by John Hadfield. It was broadcast in 1994 airing on the BBC in four 50 minute episodes.

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Cast

Michael Maloney

Jasper Pye

Leslie Phillips

Lord Flamborough

Maria Aitken

Lady Flamborough

Graham Crowden

Professor Pollux

Stephen Moore

Quirk

Amanda Root

Miss Mounsey

David Haig

Lionel Virley

Cathryn Harrison

Chloe

Abigail Cruttenden

Belinda

Charlotte Williams

Matilda

Gillian Raine

Miss Tidy

Joe Melia

Mr Jones

Maggie Wells

Dimple Potts

Seasons & Episodes

Jasper Pye a refined civil servant is sent to the rural Suffolk/Norfolk counties border to close the Office of Output Statistics which has outlived its usefulness. Instead he becomes seduced by the small idyllic world he finds there, making his task rather more difficult than he had imagined.

E1Yes Sir, That's My Baby

50m

Jun 12, 1994

A bored civil servant decides to quit and become an artist but instead finds himself assigned to an old government research unit.

E2I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight

50m

Jun 19, 1994

Jasper gets a mysterious invitation to a rendezvous and Belinda persuades him to paint a nude portrait of her.

E3I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

50m

Jun 26, 1994

Lionel almost sabotages the cricket match when he lures Jasper into the "dungeon" for a drinking binge.

E4Ain't She Sweet

50m

Jul 3, 1994

Matilda comes down the chimney of Jasper's bedroom and tries to seduce him.

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Love on a Branch Line is a British television adaptation of the 1959 novel Love on a Branch Line by John Hadfield. It was broadcast in 1994 airing on the BBC in four 50 minute episodes.