The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

Ruth has everything. A large, warty body, a standard house in the suburbs, two whiney children, a dog, a cat and a guinea pig. She also has Bobo, her unfaithful accountant husband who resents her very existence. Bobo wants, and is wanted by, Mary Fisher. Mary Fisher lives in a lighthouse by the sea and writes about love. When Bobo leaves Ruth for the novelist, she decides that Mary Fisher doesn't know the first thing about love. Ruth intends to teach her.

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Ended

Original Name

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

First Air Date

October 8, 1986

Last Air Date

October 29, 1986

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Episodes

Language

English

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BBC Two

S01E04

Episode 4

Her romantic world in tatters Mary turns for help to lonely,well-meaning Catholic priest Father Ferguson.She is not to know that Ruth,having given Vista Rose over to Nurse Hopkins,has installed herself as the priest's atheist house-keeper Molly who also introduces him to sex,convincing him that love does not exist so that the only comfort he gives Mary is cynical and carnal. One night a mysterious wind blows through the light-house.whirling Mary to her death. At her funeral her exact double turns up and later buys the light-house, for Ruth has spent thousands of ...

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