About this season
About Face is a series of twelve unconnected half-hour sitcoms all starring Maureen Lipman in the lead role. Each episode featured a guest cast of well known actors and actresses. The episodes were written by Richard Harris, Geoffrey Perkins, Chips Hardy & John Henderson, Astrid Ronning, John Wells, Paul Smith & Terry Kyan, Jack Rosenthal, Carol Bunyan and Ian Hislop & Nick Newman. It was made for the ITV network by Central Independent Television.
Episodes (6)
1. Tourist attraction
Aired 7 January 1991 • 30 min
Tourist guide Louise is desperate to meet up with her German boyfriend.
2. This is for the half darling
Aired 14 January 1991 • 30 min
Golf widow Peggy decides to beat her husband at his own game.
3. Requim
Aired 21 January 1991 • 30 min
Amateur opera singer Anne wants her husband to be in the audience for her latest role but he would rather go to a function at the rotary club.
4. Briefcase encounter
Aired 28 January 1991 • 30 min
Office worker deidre begins a romance with her area manager.
5. Monkey business
Aired 4 February 1991 • 30 min
Animal rights campaigner Helen is caught apparently smuggling cocaine through customs, this mix-up is really a cover up for her smuggling of a chimpanzee.
6. Sleeping sickness
Aired 11 February 1991 • 30 min
Overworked but ambitious Doctor MacBride hankers after a consultant job.