Emily Morgan

Dans le port anglais de Lyme, Charles Smithson, rentier et collectionneur de fossiles marins, fait la connaissance de Sarah Woodruff, une jeune préceptrice solitaire et mélancolique. Cette rencontre va faire renaître à la vie celle qui fut jadis abandonnée par un lieutenant français.

When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she finds herself catapulted into the murky world of the French Resistance.

Fitness fanatic, Donald Leek, indulges in a monthly Chunky Monkey experience with, someone vaguely resembling movie-songstress, Julie Andrews, who he's expecting at 7:30pm. His obsession with Ms. Andrews (and her posterior) is somewhat disturbing to say the least. Before she arrives however, he has to dispose of the body parts of Mr Azam, manager of his favourite Indian restaurant, who has neglected to send him a Christmas card. He is interrupted by a peculiar assortment of unwelcome visitors, amongst them, Jesus Christ and a one-testicled self-made millionaire. Each one is as unhinged as their host, who retaliates to the intrusion in extreme fashion

Four middle-aged men concoct a scheme which involves them insuring their lives, so that if one of them dies the others inherit a tidy sum. Suddenly fate throws a darkly comic chain of mishaps their way:

Charles est célibataire. Seul compte son petit cercle d'amis, composé de Fiona, Gareth, Tom, Matthew et Scarlett, sa co-locataire. L'amour ne le tente pas et quand il fait la connaissance de Carrie lors d'un mariage où il officie en tant que témoin, il n'imagine en rien la passion qui va l'envahir. Car Charles tombe amoureux de Carrie. Et ses retrouvailles quelques mois plus tard avec la demoiselle, sur le point de se marier avec un riche Écossais, ne vont que confirmer les sentiments qu'il éprouve pour elle.

The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and Columbia Pictures Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom Who's the Boss?. As in the former series, an affluent single woman, raising a son with the help of her mother, hires a housekeeper only to have a man apply for the job.