Mapp & Lucia (1985) Series 1, Ep 3 "The Italian Connection" 1930s Comedy Drama - Nigel Hawthorne

Lucia's tableaux to raise funds for the local hospital is a success and she takes the opportunity to seek revenge on Mapp for preventing the showing of hers and Georgie's art submissions at the local art exhibition. Lucia's success however is overshadowed by her subsequent home piano recitals that bore the attendees. The Contessa Faraglione visits and Lucia avoids Mapp's plans to expose Lucia's lack of Italian, a fluency she has feigned as she actually knows only a few scattered phrases. Georgie provides the perfect ruse.

First broadcast 28th April 1985.

Main cast:

Geraldine McEwan - Emmaline "Lucia" Lucas
Prunella Scales - Miss Elizabeth Mapp
Nigel Hawthorne - Georgie Pillson
Denis Lill - Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint
Mary MacLeod - Godiva 'Diva' Plaistow
James Greene - Rev. Kenneth Bartlett
Cecily Hobbs - 'Quaint' Irene Coles
Geoffrey Chater - Mr. Algernon Wyse
Marion Mathie - Mrs. Susan Wyse MBE
Geraldine Newman - Grosvenor
Ken Kitson - Cadman
Lucinda Gane - Foljambe

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