It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling

It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling
GenreSitcom
Written byJilly Cooper
Christopher Bond
Directed byLeon Thau
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes7
Production
ProducerLeon Thau
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC1
Release15 April (1971-04-15) –
30 December 1971 (1971-12-30)

It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling is a BBC television sitcom which ran for a single series of six episodes in November–December 1971, after a pilot in April 1971 shown in Comedy Playhouse.

Written by Jilly Cooper and Christopher Bond, it was about four posh young women sharing a flat in London. They were played by Jane Carr ("Pudding"), Joanna Lumley ("Samantha"), Elizabeth Knight ("Clover") and Jennifer Croxton ("Virginia"); Jeremy Lloyd played a boyfriend. The series producer was Leon Thau.[1]

Only the first episode of the series ("A New Lease") exists in the archives; the pilot and the rest of the series are missing.[2]

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