The Duchess of Duke Street

The Duchess Of Duke Street is a British television drama series transmitted by the BBC. The programme lasted for two series totalling 30 episodes, shown between 1976 and 1977.

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British - Television - BBC - 1976 - 1977

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The series was created by John Hawkesworth, the former producer of the highly successful ITV period drama Upstairs Downstairs and starred Gemma Jones as Louisa Trotter, the eponymous "Duchess" who works her way up from being a maid to the manager of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, London.

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John Hawkesworth - ITV - Upstairs Downstairs - Gemma Jones

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Other prominent cast members in the series were Christopher Cazenove as Louisa's aristocratic lover Charles Tyrrell, and Lalla Ward as their illegitimate daughter Lottie.

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Christopher Cazenove - Lalla Ward

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