Agony
Agony

Agony

1979 3 Seasons 20 Episodes ⭐ 6.6 Comedy Drama

Agony is a British sitcom produced by LWT for ITV, broadcast from 1979 to 1981. It stars Maureen Lipman as successful agony aunt Jane Lucas, whose own personal life and marriage is a disaster. It was written by Len Richmond, Anna Raeburn, Stan Hey and Andrew Nickolds. Although a comedy, Agony sometimes dealt with taboo issues 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.

Agony is a British sitcom produced by LWT for ITV, broadcast from 1979 to 1981. It stars Maureen Lipman as successful agony aunt Jane Lucas, whose own personal life and marriage is a disaster. It was written by Len Richmond, Anna Raeburn, Stan Hey and Andrew Nickolds. Although a comedy, Agony sometimes dealt with taboo issues 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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Help

Jane Lucas, overworked advice columnist for Person magazine, tries to cope with her usual hectic schedule as she advises

EP 2

An Unmarried Couple

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

EP 3

Conjugal Wrongs

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

EP 4

Wedlock, Deadlock

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

EP 5

Forever and Never

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

EP 6

Too Much Agony, Too Little Ecstasy

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

EP 1

Back to Reality

Jane returns from vacation and decides to start dating again, but sees Laurence on a tape at a video-dating service talk

EP 2

Working Girls

Val threatens to moonlight in one of Vincent Fish's erotic films when Diana refuses to give her a raise.

EP 3

Coming Out... and Going In Again?

Michael appears anonymously on Jane's radio show to answer questions about the homosexual lifestyle, but Junior's blunde

EP 4

Television Can Damage Your Health

Jane tries another medium when she makes a television pilot that goes completely off course.

EP 5

Problem Parents

Jane helps Rob explain his homosexuality to his parents and advises her mother about a smitten Junior Truscombe.

EP 6

Second Time Around

A religiously reformed Andy Evol returns and both he and Jane return to Happening Radio when Junior falls ill.

EP 7

A Woman Alone

Jane is taken hostage during her radio show by a reader unhappy with her advice.

EP 1

From Here to Maternity

Jane encounters a broad range of opposition when she decides to stop working and be a full time wife and mother.

EP 2

Arrivals and Departures

Jane and Laurence wait for their baby while attending a baby care class run by a strange woman and trying to help Michae

EP 3

Hospital Romances

Jane continues helping people from her hospital bed as a black nurse faces the anger of her superior and Val runs off wi

EP 4

Communications Breakdown

Jane's investigation into group therapy uncovers a problem in her marriage and in that of Val and Andy.

EP 5

Holy Wars

Jane and Laurence's quarrel over having young Michael circumcised uncovers hidden prejudices.

EP 6

Lucas v Lucas

Jane and Laurence grow farther apart when their baby is kidnapped by a disturbed man.

EP 7

Rings Off Their Fingers

Laurence tries to win Jane back and she throws a New Year's Eve party that promises to change many people's lives.

Popular Cast

Maureen Lipman
Maureen Lipman
Jane Lucas
Simon Williams
Simon Williams
Laurence Lucas
Maria Charles
Maria Charles
Bea Fisher