An adaptation of Kingsley Amis's 1960 comic novel about love and lust in 1950s Britain. It opens with lothario Patrick Standish eyeing Jenny Bunn, a suburban-London teacher who's both 'unnecessarily pretty' and 'a nice girl.' Patrick isn't her only pursuer, so, he sighs, 'it's going to be a long haul then.' The series aired on 'Masterpiece Theatre' and was written by Andrew Davies.