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The House of Eliott

The House of Eliott

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 couturefashion house. It also featured Aden Gillett as photographer and film maker Jack Maddox, who eventually marries Bea 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.