The House of Eliott | |
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Genre | Costume drama |
Created by | Jean Marsh Eileen Atkins |
Starring | Stella Gonet Louise Lombard Aden Gillett Maggie Ollerenshaw |
Theme music composer | Jim Parker |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 34 |
Production | |
Camera setup | Multiple |
Running time | 50 minutes (approx) |
Original release | |
Network | BBC 1 |
Release | 31 August 1991 6 March 1994 | –
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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.