Berkeley Square: Pretty Maids All in a Row

Berkeley Square: Pretty Maids All in a Row
BBC
10 May 1998
Historical Drama
DVD
B-

Cast who will return at least once more in the remaining nine episodes:

• Emily Canfor-Dumas as Harriet St. John
• Jason Cheater as Kegan
• Peter Forbes as Fowler
• Rupert Frazer as Lord George Lamson-Scribener
• Briony Glassco as Lady Constance Lamson-Scribener
• Phyllida Hancock as Elspeth Hutchinson
• Amy Hodge as Pringle
• Martino Lazzeri as Dan Smythe
• Rosemary Leach as Nanny Collins
• Ronald MacLeod as Potter
• Maggie McCarthy as Cook
• Sean Murray as Arnold St. John
• Hermione Norris as Victoria St. John
• Jason O'Mara as Ned Jones
• Laurence Owen as Tom St. John (around the time he was playing Stephen Fry's son in Wilde)
• Etela Pardo as Mrs. Bronowski
• William Scott-Masson as Captain Mason
• Ruth Sheen as Nurse Ethel Carr
• Victoria Smurfit as Hannah Randall
• Catherine Terris as Mrs. Weston
• Tabitha Wady as Lydia Weston
• Clare Wilkie as Matty Wickham
• Kate Williams as Mrs. McClusky
• Roger Winslet as Mr. Weston
• Maurice Yeoman as Gibbons

As that suggests, this miniseries has a sprawling cast with many plot-lines.  Briefly, it's 1902 and three very different women find themselves working as nannies for posh families in London, yes, at one of the places that Cathy Lane would visit six decades later.  I'm enjoying this so far, but I marked it down from a B because I don't care for the thread about the boxer who kills someone.  (He turns out to be the son of one of the housekeepers.)

Deborah Cook, Lillie Ferrari, and Suzanne van de Velde wrote this, while Lesley Manning is one of four directors listed at Wikipedia.