Love in a Cold Climate (1980)

Based on Nancy Mitford's satirical novels about English upper class society between the two world wars, Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love , this series examines the lives of the English county set, most notably the eccentric Lord and Lady Alconleigh and their children, and their wider circle of even more eccentric friends. A delightful expose of the English upper crust it is both comic and tragic, but above all it is wickedly satirical about the lives of the characters who inhabit its world.

Many of Britain's finest actors appeared in Love in a Cold Climate, including Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Michael Aldridge and Vivian Pickles.