No Job for a Lady

No Job for a Lady
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Alex Shearer
Starring	Penelope Keith George Baker Mark Kingston Garfield Morgan Paul Young Brogden Miller
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	18
Production
Producer(s)	John Howard Davies
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Thames Television
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Original run	7 February 1990 – 10 February 1992

No Job for a Lady is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1990 to 1992. Starring Penelope Keith, it was written by Alex Shearer, and directed and produced by John Howard Davies. It was made for the ITV network by Thames Television.

Cast

• Penelope Keith — Jean Price MP
• Mark Kingston — Geoff Price
• Garfield Morgan — Norman (Whip)
• George Baker — Sir Godfrey Eagan MP (series 1 and 2)
• Paul Young — Ken Miller
• Brogden Miller — Freddy
• Nigel Humphreys — Harry
• Jonathan Dow — Tim (series 1)
• Paul Rattigan — Mark (series 2)
• Michael Cochrane — Richard (series 3)

Note - In the four Series One episodes Nigel Humphreys appeared in he was credited as Nigel Humphries.

Plot

No Job for a Lady revolved around Jean Price, the newly elected, somewhat rebellious Labour MP for an inner-city constituency, and her life in the House of Commons. She is married to Geoff Price, and as well being an MP she has to try and look after her house and children. The interior of the Commons was never seen, and most of the scenes took place in her office, which she shared with her Scottish colleague Ken Miller, the lobby and in the lounges of Westminster. Other characters included the whip Norman and the Conservative MP Sir Godfrey Eagan.

Episodes

Series One (1990)

1. Who Goes Home? (7 Feb 90)
2. The Maiden Over (14 Feb 90)
3. There Should Be A Law Against It (21 Feb 90)
4. Questions, Questions! (28 Feb 90)
5. A Member of the Committee (7 Mar 90)
6. Take a Copy (14 Mar 90)

Series Two (1991)

1. Strange Bedfellows (7 Jan 91)
2. But I Voted For You (14 Jan 91)
3. White Knights (21 Jan 91)
4. Poetic Justice (28 Jan 91)
5. Undesirable Aliens (4 Feb 91)
6. No Rumour In The Faith (11 Feb 91)

Series Three (1992)

1. Hawks and Doves (6 Jan 92)
2. A Bed for the Night (13 Jan 92)
3. Sugar and Spice (20 Jan 92)
4. I'd Like To See You Do It (27 Jan 92)
5. What Care? What Compensation? (3 Feb 92)
6. Lobby Terms (10 Feb 92)

DVD release

The first two complete series 1 & 2 of No Job for a Lady have been released on DVD by Network, so far.

The third (and final) series has been scheduled to follow on 11 June 2012, with a 3 disc set of the complete series to follow at some point.

DVD	Release date
The Complete Series 1	26 July 2010
The Complete Series 2	25 July 2011
The Complete Series 3	11 June 2012
The Complete Series 1 to 3 Box Set	TBA

References

• Mark Lewisohn, "Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy", BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2003
• British TV Comedy Guide for No Job for a Lady

External links

• No Job for a Lady at the Internet Movie Database
• No Job for a Lady at the British Comedy Guide