''She's Out'' is a British primetime television

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. The six-part series was produced by

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for

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and screened on

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in 1995. Written by

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as a sequel to her 1980's series, ''

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'', ''She's Out'' takes up the story of the central character, Dolly Rawlins, ten years after the events of the previous series.

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, who reprised her role as Dolly and Kate Williams, who played Audrey Withey, were the only cast members from the original series to appear in ''She's Out''. The executive producer for the series was

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and the series was directed by

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, both of whom had worked on the original series. It begins with Dolly Rawlins' release from prison after serving a five-year sentence for the murder of Harry, her husband. She teams up with several other parolees and make plans to stage a train robbery on horseback. Dolly's new companions in crime were fellow former inmates, brothel madam Ester Freeman (

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), Julia Lawson (Anna Patrick), a doctor who sold prescriptions to finance her heroin habit, arms dealer and fence Gloria Radford (Maureen Sweeney), prostitute Connie Stephens (Zoe Heyes), Angela Dunn (

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), a young woman embroiled in Ester's vice schemes and forger Kathleen O'Reilly (Maggie McCarthy). The series was released on Region 2 DVD.

Cast

as Dolly Rawlins *

as Ester Freeman *Maureen Sweeney as Gloria Radford *Anna Patrick as Julia Lawson *Zoe Heyes as Connie Stephens *Indra Ové as Angela Dunn *Maggie McCarthy as Kathleen O'Reilly *Adrian Rawlins as D.S. Mike Withey * Kate Williams as Audrey Withey *

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as D.C.I. Ron Craigh *

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as D.S. John Palmer * Sophie Heyman as Susan Withey *

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as Jim Douglas *

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as Eddie Radford *

Richard Lintern Richard Charles Lintern (born 8 October 1962) is an English stage, voice and screen actor. Early life Lintern was born in Taunton, Somerset. He studied English Literature at Durham University. He subsequently won a scholarship to the Royal A ...

as John Maynard *

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as Norma Walker *

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as Jimmy Donaldson

Episode list

References

External links

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