Mapp & Lucia (Channel 4)

Mapp and Lucia is a British television series, set in the fictional Sussex coastal town of Tilling-on-Sea and based on three 1930s novels by E. F. Benson.

Synopsys
A series based on the books by E. F. Benson and set in the English countryside of the 1930's. The  Mapp and Lucia  of the title are two middle aged women who exist in a permanent state of one-upmanship with each other. Always trying to have the last word or to arrange the better garden party. In many ways this is the female version of the equally wonderful Jeeves & Wooster, it is set in the same era and they both follow the adventures of the English gentry.

Cast

 * Prunella Scales as Elizabeth Mapp
 * Geraldine McEwan as Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas
 * Nigel Hawthorne as George Pillson
 * Denis Lill as Major Benji Flint
 * Lucinda Gane as Foljambe (Georgie's housemaid)
 * Mary MacLeod as Godiva 'Diva' Plaistow
 * James Greene as Rev. Kenneth Bartlett
 * Cecily Hobbs as Irene Coles
 * Geoffrey Chater as Mr. Algernon Wyse
 * Marion Mathie as Mrs. Susan Wyse MBE
 * Geraldine Newman as Grosvenor
 * Ken Kitson as Cadman
 * Cherry Morris as Withers
 * David Gooderson as Mr. Woolgar

Production
It was produced by London Weekend Television, filmed in Rye (on which Benson based Tilling) and neighbouring Winchelsea in the 1980s, and starred Prunella Scales as Mapp, Geraldine McEwan as Lucia, Nigel Hawthorne as Georgie, and Denis Lill as Major Benji. The script was by Gerald Savory. There were ten episodes, (which aired in two series of five) broadcast on Channel 4 in 1985 and 1986.

Filming took place in Rye and Winchelsea as well as Kent – Chilham features in episodes 1, 2 and 10, doubling as Risholme and Hever Castle features as the residence of Poppy, Duchess of Sheffield.

Mapp and Lucia (1985-1986) episodes have been repeated over the years, most recently on ITV Encore in 2015, shortly after the broadcast of the new BBC adaptation Mapp and Lucia and the death of Geraldine McEwan.

Episode Guide
For episodes of the two seasons of Mapp and Lucia, see: Episode Guide.