English Dramas & Comedies Set in the 1920s
Making of / behind the scenes books:
- Masterpiece Theatre: A Celebration of 25 Years of Outstanding Television - by Terrence O'Flaherty (behind the scenes info about of many of the UK series in this list)
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- CreatorEileen AtkinsJean MarshStarsStella GonetLouise LombardAden GillettTwo sisters in 1920s London work to achieve success in the dressmaking business.
- CreatorEileen AtkinsStarsGordon JacksonDavid LangtonJean MarshThe lives and fortunes of the Bellamy family and their below-stairs servant staff at 165 Eaton Place play out against the social, political and historical backdrop of Edwardian London from 1903 to 1930.
- StarsEric PorterMargaret TyzackNyree Dawn PorterSpanning decades, the saga contrasts obsessive Soames, clinging to wife Irene, and Jolyon, leaving for his kids' governess. Their diverging paths intertwine, bringing highs and lows to the upper-class Forsyte clan.
- CreatorJohn HawkesworthStarsGemma JonesVictoria PlucknettJohn WelshLouisa Trotter works her way up from being a skivvy to being the queen of cooks, cook to the King, and owner of the Bentinck Hotel. Her life and happenings among the guests and staff of the hotel make up the 31 episodes.
- CreatorRosemary Anne SissonFrank MarshallStarsNorman RodwayBarbara MurrayBelinda Lang1920s family of actors deals with the day to day of the theater business.
- DirectorStephen FryStarsStephen Campbell MooreEmily MortimerDan AykroydAn adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies", is a look into the lives of a young novelist, his would-be lover, and a host of young people who beautified London in the 1930s.
- StarsFrancesca AnnisJames WarwickReece DinsdaleAgatha Christie's husband-and-wife sleuthing team take on a series of short whodunit mysteries.
- StarsNeil DudgeonDiana RiggPeter DavisonPaired with her reliable and devoted chauffeur, Mrs Bradley's finely honed skills of investigation seek out the truth behind the mysteries surrounding a death at the opera, crimes of passion at a circus, poisoning and family secrets.
- StarsJeremy IronsDiana QuickRoger MilnerThe life, friendships and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder-including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle.
- DirectorChristopher HamptonStarsEmma ThompsonJonathan PryceSteven WaddingtonThe platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington (Dame Emma Thompson) and writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) in the early twentieth century.
- CreatorPatricia HodgeStarsJanet McTeerDavid HaigCathryn HarrisonMelodrama detailing the real-life love affair between feminist writer Vita Sackville-West and novelist Violet Keppel against the backdrop of post-World War I England and opposition by Vita's politician husband Harold Nicolson. Vita and Violet's romantic relationship becomes increasingly obsessive which spawns destructive feelings of possessiveness and jealousy between them.
- StarsJohn DuttineFrank MiddlemassAlan MacNaughtanDavid Powlett-Jones has just returned to England from the trenches of WWI. He was injured and shell-shocked and, after a spell in hospital he gets a job teaching in a boys boarding school in S.W. England. He is not at all sure he can do the job, but the avuncular headmaster has faith in him. David, although well educated, is just a humble lad from the Welsh valleys at heart and has to fit himself and his ideas into the heart of the English establishment.
- StarsRebecca CallardTim HealySusan HampshireAt the end of the First World War, the Bannerman family reopened the Grand Hôtel after a long closure and costly renovation.
- DirectorMarleen GorrisStarsVanessa RedgraveNatascha McElhoneMichael KitchenIn 1923 London, socialite Clarissa Dalloway's (Vanessa Redgrave's) well-planned party is overshadowed by the return of an old suitor she had known thirty-three years earlier.
- StarsDamian LewisRupert GravesGina McKeeChronicles the lives of three generations of the upper-middle-class British family, the Forsytes, from the 1870s to 1920.
- CreatorJulian FellowesStarsHugh BonnevillePhyllis LoganElizabeth McGovernA chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century.
- DirectorPhilip GoodhewStarsNatasha LittleNick MoranIoan GruffuddA woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in the early 1920s, in London.
- StarsTimothy SpallJennifer SaundersJack FarthingP.G. Wodehouse's beloved Blandings Castle stories follow the foibles of an eccentric aristocrat, his peculiar family, and the ramshackle ancestral home they share.
- StarsNigel HaversGlyn HoustonPrunella RansomeInvalided out of the Boer War, Paul Craddock buys Shallowford estate in Devon. He treats tenant farmers fairly, earning respect as the new "Squire", unlike his predecessor.
- StarsJames NortonEve BestRupert Penry-JonesAn intimate and emotional drama for BBC Two about the revolutionary Bloomsbury group.
- CreatorHeidi ThomasStarsBrian McCardieCatherine TyldesleyKerrie HayesTough, sexy, funny and heartbreaking, Lillies details the lives of Iris, May and Ruby Moss - Catholic sisters coming of age in a dockland terraced house. Familial love sustains them, and their fortunes are bound to those of their brother and their father. Set in the years immediately following the First World War, Lilies pulls no punches in its storytelling. It depicts a sensual, vivid and sometimes savage universe - where life is lived on a knife-edge of poverty, fuelled by various kinds of love. Dadda, the family's charismatic and mercurial father married very young, is now widowed, and his struggle to nurture his unruly children proves both moving and comic.
- DirectorMichael EnglerStarsElizabeth McGovernHaley Lu RichardsonGéza RöhrigIn the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dancer on her fame-seeking journey to New York City.
- DirectorBob SpiersStarsDawn FrenchJennifer SaundersSimon BrintDawn French and Jennifer Saunders pay their own comic tribute to the popular drama serial The House of Eliott and former Top of the Pops dance group Pan's People, and discuss minor members of the Royal family.https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x36aszc