Broadcast: March 28-May 16, 1982. Dramatization of two Nancy Mitford semi-autobiographical best-selling novels about the hilarious domestic life of an eccentric upper class British family living in pre-World War II frivolity of grand balls and house parties. Lucy Gutteridge and Rosalyun Landor portray two beautiful aristocratic young girls whose affairs of the heart are played against the glamorous backdrop of the 1930s while future political upheaval and the shadow of war wait ominously in the wings.