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Series profile

Mapp & Lucia

Deliciously mannered satire

6.2/ 1019851h 0m

Comedy

Mapp & Lucia is a British television comedy, based on E. F. Benson's novels, beginning with the eponymous 1931 entry for series 1, with Lucia's Progress and Trouble for Lucia for series 2. Mrs Emmeline Lucas (nicknamed Lucia) has just moved to the small English town of Tilling where she comes into conflict with the social ambitions of Miss Elizabeth Mapp. Until now, Miss Mapp has led (and controlled) the social life of Tilling, but that was before they met Lucia.

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Geraldine McEwan

Geraldine McEwan

Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas

Prunella Scales

Prunella Scales

Miss Elizabeth Mapp

Nigel Hawthorne

Nigel Hawthorne

Georgie Pillson

Denis Lill

Denis Lill

Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint

Mary MacLeod

Godiva 'Diva' Plaistow

James Greene

James Greene

Reverend Kenneth Bartlett

Cecily Hobbs

'Quaint' Irene Coles

Geoffrey Chater

Geoffrey Chater

Mr Algernon Wyse