

Air Date
June 12, 1994
Episodes
4 episodes
Love on a Branch Line
Season 1
Overview
Jasper Pye a refined civil servant is sent to the rural Suffolk/Norfolk counties border to close the Office of Output Statistics which has outlived its usefulness. Instead he becomes seduced by the small idyllic world he finds there, making his task rather more difficult than he had imagined.
Episodes
1. Yes Sir, That's My Baby
A bored civil servant decides to quit and become an artist but instead finds himself assigned to an old government research unit.
2. I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight
Jasper gets a mysterious invitation to a rendezvous and Belinda persuades him to paint a nude portrait of her.
3. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Lionel almost sabotages the cricket match when he lures Jasper into the "dungeon" for a drinking binge.
4. Ain't She Sweet
Matilda comes down the chimney of Jasper's bedroom and tries to seduce him.

Michael Maloney
Jasper Pye

Leslie Phillips
Lord Flamborough

Maria Aitken
Lady Flamborough

Graham Crowden
Professor Pollux

Stephen Moore
Quirk

Amanda Root
Miss Mounsey

David Haig
Lionel Virley

Cathryn Harrison
Chloe

Abigail Cruttenden
Belinda

Charlotte Williams
Matilda

Gillian Raine
Miss Tidy

Joe Melia
Mr Jones
Maggie Wells
Dimple Potts