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Agony

Season 1 1979
NR

  • 1979-03-11T00:00:00Z on ITV
  • 30m
  • 3h (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy, Documentary
Agony is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1979 to 1981. It starred Maureen Lipman as a successful agony aunt but whose own personal life and marriage is a disaster. It was written by Len Richmond, Anna Raeburn, Stan Hey and Andrew Nickolds. It was made for the ITV network by LWT. Although a comedy, Agony sometimes dealt with issues that were seen as taboo at the time such as drug use, racism, abortion, interracial relationships, and swinging, and was the first British sitcom to portray a gay couple as non-camp, witty, intelligent and happy people. It also openly mocked the government, the ruling classes, and religion, and occasionally contained dark and dramatic storylines.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

1979-03-11T00:00:00Z

1x01 Help

Series Premiere

1x01 Help

  • 1979-03-11T00:00:00Z30m

Jane Lucas, overworked advice columnist for Person magazine, tries to cope with her usual hectic schedule as she advises a shy transvestite and takes a phone call from her husband informing her he's leaving her.

1979-03-18T00:00:00Z

1x02 An Unmarried Couple

1x02 An Unmarried Couple

  • 1979-03-18T00:00:00Z30m

Jane tries to get use to being alone and to deal with the reactions from an avid press and an overwrought mother.

1979-03-24T23:00:00Z

1x03 Conjugal Wrongs

1x03 Conjugal Wrongs

  • 1979-03-24T23:00:00Z30m

Laurence returns when Jane agrees to try some mechanical assistance for their lovemaking.

1979-04-07T23:00:00Z

1x04 Wedlock, Deadlock

1x04 Wedlock, Deadlock

  • 1979-04-07T23:00:00Z30m

Laurence's interest in another woman at the hospital where he works prompts him to suggest that he and Jane have an open marriage agreement.

1979-04-14T23:00:00Z

1x05 Forever and Never

1x05 Forever and Never

  • 1979-04-14T23:00:00Z30m

Jane tries to balance Laurence's demands for attention with Michael and Rob's need for her to mediate a quarrel.

Season Finale

1979-04-28T23:00:00Z

1x06 Too Much Agony, Too Little Ecstasy

Season Finale

1x06 Too Much Agony, Too Little Ecstasy

  • 1979-04-28T23:00:00Z30m

Jane celebrates her birthday by taking the advice she's been giving to another woman; she leaves Laurence.

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