Ruth Patchett has it all: a large, warty body, a standard suburban home, a couple of unruly children, a dog, a cat and a guinea pig. She also has Bobbo, her unfaithful accountant husband who resents her very existence. Bobbo wants, and is wanted by, romance novelist Mary Fisher, who lives in a lighthouse by the sea. When Bobo leaves Ruth for Mary, Ruth decides that Mary doesn't know the first thing about love, and she's gonna teach her.
1 season · 4 episodes
Ruth Patchett has it all: a large, warty body, a standard suburban home, a couple of unruly children, a dog, a cat and a guinea pig. She also has Bobbo, her unfaithful accountant husband who resents her very existence. Bobbo wants, and is w
S1 E1Part 1
Oct 8, 198658 min
Clumsy, put-upon Ruth Patchett leads a drudge's life with her two bratty children Nicola and Andy, and her neglectful accountant husband Bobbo. When Bobbo starts an affair with his top client, the glamourous, lighthouse-dwelling romantic no
S1 E2Part 2
Oct 15, 198658 min
Whilst Mary and Bobbo find it tough going looking after the kids, Ruth, calling herself Lily Latimer, becomes a care assistant at the home where Mary's mother lives. Having befriended a co-worker, Nurse Hopkins, Ruth soon gains the down-to-
S1 E3Part 3
Oct 22, 198658 min
Looking increasingly more elegant and visiting Harley Street with a view to plastic surgery, Ruth opens her secretarial agency Vista Rose with Hopkins. By chance, Bobbo's firm requests two of their temps and Ruth knows just who to send alon
S1 E4Part 4
Oct 29, 198658 min
Her romance in tatters, Mary turns for help to lonely, well-meaning Catholic priest Father Ferguson. She is not to know that Ruth, having given Vista Rose over to Hopkins, has installed herself as the priest's atheist housekeeper Molly, who
