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Love on a Branch Line
Overview
Love on a Branch Line is a British television adaptation of the 1959 novel Love on a Branch Line by John Hadfield. It was broadcast in 1994 airing on the BBC in four 50 minute episodes.
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Season 1 (1994)
Jasper Pye a refined civil servant is sent to the rural Suffolk/Norfolk counties border to close the Office of Output Statistics which has outlived its usefulness. Instead he becomes seduced by the small idyllic world he finds there, making his task rather more difficult than he had imagined.
4 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Yes Sir, That's My Baby
1994-06-12A bored civil servant decides to quit and become an artist but instead finds himself assigned to an old government research unit.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 2: I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight
1994-06-19Jasper gets a mysterious invitation to a rendezvous and Belinda persuades him to paint a nude portrait of her.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 3: I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1994-06-26Lionel almost sabotages the cricket match when he lures Jasper into the "dungeon" for a drinking binge.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 4: Ain't She Sweet
1994-07-03Matilda comes down the chimney of Jasper's bedroom and tries to seduce him.
Runtime: 50 min
