Stanley and the Women

*Stanley and the Women*
Stanley and the Women
Genre	Drama
Based on	Sian Thomas; David Lyon; Alun Armstrong; Samuel West; Donald Churchill; Michael Elphick
Composer	Barrington Pheloung
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	4
Production
Executive producer	Ted Childs
Producer	Chris Burt
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	Central Independent Television
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	28 November –; 19 December 1991

Stanley and the Women is a British television drama miniseries starring

Sian Thomas. This series based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Kingsley Amis and adapted for the television by Nigel Kneale and directed by David Tucker, it was produced by Central Independent Television for the ITV

network and originally aired in four parts from 28 November to 19 December 1991.

Plot

Stanley Duke works in advertising. He was married to an actress, Nowell, and is now dating Susan, with whom he has a complicated relationship, particularly because of the interference of her mother, Lady D. His son, Steve, suffers a mental breakdown, and Stanley takes him to two psychiatrists. The first, Dr. Collings, is female and too liberated for Stanley; and the second, Dr. Nash, seems to be more interested in drinking than helping his son.

Cast

John Thaw as Stanley Duke
Geraldine James as Dr. Trish Collings
Sheila Gish as Nowell Hutchinson
Penny Downie as Susan Duke
Sian Thomas
as Lindsey Lucas
David Lyon as Dr. Cliff Wainwright
Alun Armstrong as Rufus Hilton
Samuel West as Stephen Duke
Donald Churchill as Harry Coote
Michael Elphick as Bert Hutchinson
Dafydd Hywel as Taff Wyndham
Michael Aldridge as Dr. Alfred Nash

Production

Casting

This was Donald Churchill's last acting role before his death on 29 October 1991, before the end of filming the series.

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)
1	"Episode One"	David Tucker	Nigel Kneale	28 November 1991 (1991-11-28)	N/A
2	"Episode Two"	David Tucker	Nigel Kneale	5 December 1991 (1991-12-05)	N/A
3	"Episode Three"	David Tucker	Nigel Kneale	12 December 1991 (1991-12-12)	N/A
4	"Episode Four"	David Tucker	Nigel Kneale	19 December 1991 (1991-12-19)	N/A

Home media

The series of subsequently released on VHS in 1992^[1] and on DVD of the series is now available in 2007 by DD Home Entertainment in the UK.^[2]

References

External links

Stanley and the Women at
IMDb

Stanley and the Women at BFI

[1] Amazon listing for "Stanley and the Women" VHS

[2] Amazon listing for "Stanley and the Women" DVD

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v t e Kingsley Amis
Novels	Lucky Jim (1954) That Uncertain Feeling (1955) I Like It Here (1958) Take a Girl Like You (1960) The Anti-Death League (1966) Colonel Sun (1968) The Green Man (1969) Girl, 20 (1971) The Alteration (1976) Jake's Thing (1978) Stanley and the Women (1984) The Old Devils (1986) The Folks That Live on the Hill (1990) The Russian Girl (1992)
Non-fiction	The James Bond Dossier (1965) The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 (1965) The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2001)
Film and television adaptations	Lucky Jim (1957) Only Two Can Play (1962) Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (1967) Take a Girl Like You (1970) The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (1982) That Uncertain Feeling (1986) The Green Man (1990) Stanley and the Women (1991) The Old Devils (1992) Take a Girl Like You (2000) Lucky Jim (2003)
Related	Elizabeth Jane Howard (wife) Martin Amis (son) Robert Markham (pseudonym) Lemmons (home)