Original title
Brighton Belles
Released
3/9/1993
Origin country
GB
Genre
Comedy
Production companies
Carlton Television, Humphrey Barclay Productions
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
11
On her husband's demise, attractive Bridget suddenly finds she can't meet the financial demand of her Sussex country house in Brighton without his income. Her solution: take in lodgers. Two other "belles" answer her offer. Annie, also a widow, is a dim but friendly, likable farmer's daughter from a small village; Frances is a sardonic, sarcastic teacher whose husband Gilbert left her for a younger woman, taking the house. Later, Frances' tactless, overprotective mother Josephine moves in as well, to hover over and generally annoy her daughter. The women bond and Bridget shows her seductive side and she searches for a new mate.
A doctor Frances dates makes a pass at Bridget. But when Bridget tells Frances about it, Frances doesn't believe her. Frances accuses her of being a slut and when Bridget can't take any more she orders Frances to move out.
When Annie looses her job at the grief center, she begins searching for other sources of work. Meanwhile, Bridget tries to loose a few pounds and Frances is excited when a man she once had a crush on, contacts her and asks her out.
In a bowling competition, it's Frances and Bridget verses Annie and Josephine. If Josephine and Annie win, Frances will allow Josephine to go visit with an old beau and if Frances and Bridget win Josephine will give Frances a pair of antique earrings.
Bridget must decide whether to give up a vital organ for her dying sister, whom she never got along with, or keep it and allow her sister to slowly die.
Frances finds herself uncharacteristically sneaking around with a married man.
The girls arrive home to a broken in home leaving poor Annie beyond paranoid and extremely overprotective.
When Frances ex-husband Gilbert shows up they wind up forced to spend the night together.
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