The Girls of Slender Means

1975
Ended
Drama
~50m / ep
1 season
3.7/10

The Girls of Slender Means is a 1975 BBC television mini-series based on Muriel Spark's novel. The drama, aired in three parts, follows a group of young women living in a London boarding house in 1945, and is framed by a death that occurs in 1960.

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E1. Episode 1
May 3, 1975 · 50m
In London 1945, when a world and a war were winding up with a bang, all the nice people were poor - especially the girls of the May of Teck Club fighting it out to the last clothing coupon.
E2. Episode 2
May 10, 1975 · 50m
Poor, but savage, the girls of the May of Teck welcome Nicholas Farringdon , handsome anarchist and self-proclaimed genius, who is introduced to the club by Jane.
E3. Episode 3
May 17, 1975 · 50m
Selina has claimed Nicholas from Jane who is too big for the lavatory window, the gateway to romance on the roof. Soon it's to become a way of life or death.