The Girls of Slender Means

📊 Series Specifications

Network BBC Two
Episode Runtime ~50 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 3
Original Language EN
Creator Ken Taylor

The Girls of Slender Means (1975)

Created by Ken Taylor
⭐ 1.9 / 5 (3 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 3 Episodes 🏷️ Drama 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

The Girls of Slender Means is a 1975 BBC television mini-series based on Muriel Spark's novel. The drama, aired in three parts, follows a group of young women living in a London boarding house in 1945, and is framed by a death that occurs in 1960.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Episode 1

In London 1945, when a world and a war were winding up with a bang, all the nice people were poor - especially the girls of the May of Teck Club fighting it out to the last clothing coupon.

E2 Episode 2

Poor, but savage, the girls of the May of Teck welcome Nicholas Farringdon , handsome anarchist and self-proclaimed genius, who is introduced to the club by Jane.

E3 Episode 3

Selina has claimed Nicholas from Jane who is too big for the lavatory window, the gateway to romance on the roof. Soon it's to become a way of life or death.