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Scruples

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  • 1980-1980
  • 1 Season
  • CBS
  • Drama
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The soap-operatic story follows the fortunes of three ambitious youngish people: Billy, secretary and then wife to an older zillionaire, whose death frees Billy to start up a Beverly Hills boutique ("Scruples") and to pursue the pretentious and manly but commercially woebegone film director Vito Orsini. Meanwhile, Valentine, a French would-be fashion designer, and Spider, a parking lot attendant/photographer/stud, struggle up the ladder, become buddies and put off a romance that seems inevitable despite their difference in height. After Valentine and Spider become Billy's employees, they team up to navigate a number of speed bumps on the road to happiness.

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Lindsay Wagner
Billy Ikehorn
Barry Bostwick
Spider Elliott
Marie-France Pisier
Valentine O'Neill

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Episode #1.1

Mon, Feb 25, 198092 mins

Billie is the poor relative of a wealthy Boston clan. Her aunt finances her stay in Paris where Edouard proposes to her but drops her when he learns that she has no money. Working in New York, Billie marries her rich boss Ellis.

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