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Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

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A group of eclectic characters find themselves and each other in 1970's San Francisco

Dramatisation of Armistead Maupin's classic sequence of comic novels about the denizens of a San Francisco apartment house in the late 70s and early 80s

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Kate Harper

Lydia Wilson

Nancy Crane

Buffy Davis

Jos Slovick

Lou Hirsch

John Guerrasio

Simon Lee Phillips

Susan Roberts

Bryony Lavery

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Tales of the City

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Mary Ann has a new job and there's afternoon delight for Anna Madrigal and Edgar.

San Francisco, 1976. Mary Ann has a new job and there's afternoon delight for Anna Madrigal and Edgar. Stars Lydia Wilson. From January 2013.

Anna and Edgar share some afternoon delight. Mary Ann loves her new life . She settles into her apartment and job , and there's a surprise visitor for Mona .

It's 1976 - San Francisco . Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City is a portrait of a free and easy era with the drug and sex counter-culture in full swing.


Dramatised by Bryony Lavery and directed by Susan Roberts


Set in 1976 in San Francisco , Tales of the City is the first in a sequence of novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed the way we live forever.

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Mary Ann, a naive young woman, arrives in San Francisco to find love and a new home

Armistead Maupin's comic novel, set in San Francisco in 1976, is dramatised by Bryony Lavery. A comedy of manners and a portrait of an era that changed lives

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