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Love for Lydia is a British television serial made by London Weekend Television and broadcast from 9 September to 2 December 1977 on ITV. It is based on the novel by H. E. Bates, first published in 1952. The series was written by Julian Bond. This period serial stars Mel Martin in the title role of Lydia Aspen.
Drama Romance. A coming-of-age story perceived from the acts and feelings of Edward Richardson, a junior journalist who falls deeply in love with the enchanting and reckless Lydia Aspen, heiress of the welthy but on-decline Aspen family. Stars. Mel Martin.
- (243)
- 1979-09-23
- Drama, Romance
- 780
The ITV drama department made expensive mistakes in 1977 with Love For Lydia, a 13-part serial about a jazz-age flapper and the men who loved her, based on H E Bates’s short novel.
Love for Lydia is a semi-autobiographical novel written by British author H. E. Bates, first published in 1952. It is set in the fictional town of Evensford, based on Bates's hometown Rushden in Northamptonshire, England.
- H. E. Bates
- 1952
A story of the joy and sorrow of young love that recreates late 1920s and early 1930s England in exquisite detail, tracing heiress Lydia Aspen's evolution from bashful teen to wild jazz-age flapper.
- (6)
- September 9, 1977
Young reporter Edward Richardson despises his job at Evensford's small-town newspaper and longs to be a real writer. As he gazes out the window through a sudden fall of snow, he glimpses a young girl, dark-haired and pale, riding between the elderly Aspen sisters in the back of their chauffeur-driven Daimler.
Provincial heiress Lydia Aspen grows from bashful teen to wild jazz-age flapper while toying with the affections of a young writer and three other men who fall passionately in love with her. Loving the beautiful, brazen, impulsive Lydia is both dangerous and irresistible.
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