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When her husband of 20 years falls in love with a younger woman, Bridget quietly moves on. For five year she accepts her fate, filling her days with part-time work, church-going, and evening classes until a chance encounter makes her face the emotional desert her life has become. She decides to stop being so perfectly splendid about it all and to start breaking rules and taking risks.

Drama · 1989 · 51 min

Starring Dame Judi Dench , Ronald Pickup , Francesca Folan

Director David Tucker

EPISODE 1

The Tale of the Turbot

Five years after her divorce, Bridget is living in a small flat purchased for her by her ex-husband Mark and seeking to improve her life by participating in a variety of evening adult education programs, including a pottery class.

51 min · Feb 20, 1989
EPISODE 2

Home Fires

Mark desperately tries to find someone who can convince Bridget to return to her own home, while at the same time she and Rebecca begin to bond.

50 min · Feb 27, 1989
EPISODE 3

Seize the Day

Phyllida, who shares a flat with bisexual Giles, straight Jonathan, and Serafina, a teacher on the verge of a nervous breakdown, finds her home life disrupted when Giles' crotchety grandfather Herbert is unceremoniously dumped on their doorstep.

49 min · Mar 6, 1989
EPISODE 4

The Horse May Talk

Bridget finds herself increasingly attracted to the considerably younger Giles and decides to move with him to San Diego, where he was born, and start a new life there together.

50 min · Mar 13, 1989