Love on a Branch Line

4.3
199450m

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.

Seasons

4 Episodes • Premiered 1994

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.

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1. Yes Sir, That's My Baby

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

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2. I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight

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

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3. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

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

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4. Ain't She Sweet

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

Cast

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Michael Maloney

Jasper Pye

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Leslie Phillips

Lord Flamborough

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Maria Aitken

Lady Flamborough

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Graham Crowden

Professor Pollux

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Amanda Root

Miss Mounsey

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David Haig

Lionel Virley

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Gillian Raine

Miss Tidy

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Joe Melia

Mr Jones

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