Teach You a Lesson
Action & adventure · Drama
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TV series / 1986
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Episode directors
Philip Saville
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 …
The story
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.
Cast
Julie T. WallaceRuth Patchett
Patricia HodgeMary Foster
Dennis WatermanBobbo Patchett
Paul HerzbergGarcia
Caroline ButlerNicola Patchett
Christopher MossfordAndy Patchett
Liz SmithMrs Fisher
Noel DysonBrenda
John BluthalAngus
Miriam MargolyesNurse Hopkins
John RoweDr Rohn
Stephen GreifDr Ghengis
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Edna O'BrienSelf
Sue CookSelf
Malcolm TerrisGeoffrey Tupton
Ina CloughMrs Trumper
Barbara BaberMrs Sweet
Pamela MansonMrs Ivan
Bernard HeptonJudge Bissop
Pippa GuardLady Bissop
Kim ThomsonElsie Flowers
Sheila AllenFiona
Terence HarveyDentist
Margaret WadeOlga
Yasmin PettigrewMrs Andrews
Walter ShepherdDetective
Olivier PierreLawyer
John MortimerSelf
Tom BakerFather Ferguson
Nina ZuckermanSarah
Terrance ConderDr Black
Teresa GarrawayNurse Black
Philip RyanPrison Warder
Ann PenningtonBookshop Manageress
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