Husband and wife team and Royal Shakespeare Company players Dame Judi
Dench and Michael Williams star in this BAFTA award-winning ITV series
from the early 1980s. She plays Laura, who is thirty-seven and unmarried.
He plays Mike, also single. Laura's sister, Helen, (Susan Penhaligon) is keen to
see Laura 'married off' and introduces her to Mike at a party. The relationship
is awkward but they pretend they are getting along well to keep Helen happy...
Breaking-up and making-up has been a theme for Mike and Laura's
relationship - and when Laura spies a girl in Mike's flat wearing nothing but a
bath towel, she fears the relationship is over. But Mike has other ideas...