Agony

• 1. Help

  30m

  Jane Lucas, overworked advice columnist for Person magazine, tries to cope with her usual hectic schedule as she advises a shy transvestite and takes a phone call from her husband informing her he's leaving her.

• 2. An Unmarried Couple

  30m

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

• 3. Conjugal Wrongs

  30m

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

• 4. Wedlock, Deadlock

  30m

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

• 5. Forever and Never

  30m

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

• 6. Too Much Agony, Too Little Ecstasy

  30m

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

Cast

Maureen Lipman

Jane Lucas

Simon Williams

Laurence Lucas

Maria Charles

Bea Fisher