The House of Eliott

The House of Eliott
Series title card
GenreCostume drama
Created byJean Marsh
Eileen Atkins
StarringStella Gonet
Louise Lombard
Aden Gillett
Maggie Ollerenshaw
Theme music composerJim Parker
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series3
No. of episodes34
Production
Camera setupMultiple
Running time50 minutes (approx)
Original release
NetworkBBC 1
Release31 August 1991 (1991-08-31) –
6 March 1994 (1994-03-06)
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The House of Eliott is a British television series produced and broadcast by the BBC in three series between 31 August 1991 and 6 March 1994. The series starred Stella Gonet as Beatrice Eliott and Louise Lombard as Evangeline Eliott, two sisters in 1920s London who establish a dressmaking business and eventually their own haute couture fashion house, Aden Gillett as photographer and film maker Jack Maddox and Maggie Ollerenshaw as head of the workroom Florence Ranby. It was created by Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins, who had previously devised Upstairs, Downstairs. The series was written by several writers, including Jill Hyem, Peter Buckman, Deborah Cook and Ginnie Hole.