Power suits, family feuds, and the 80s British working class — someone's getting stitched up.
Season 1 • Episode 13
LatestConnie is a 1985 British television drama created and written by Ron Hutchinson as a dry commentary on 1980s Thatcherite values. Set in the East Midlands garment industry, the titular character returns to the United Kingdom from Greece after eight years in self-imposed exile. She's determined to claw back control of her chain of high-street clothes shops now controlled by her stepsister, and also get her foot back into the House of Bea, a family-owned garment factory run by her father and stepmother, which is now losing money.
Acting
Stephanie Beacham's ice-queen return from exile.
Writing
Ron Hutchinson's savage Thatcherite satire.
Production
Grimy East Midlands garment factories authentically rendered.
Creator
Ron Hutchinson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ron Hutchinson wrote this as direct commentary on Thatcher's destruction of British manufacturing and union power.
Stephanie Beacham took the role after American success, making Connie her deliberate return to complex British television.
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