The Upper Hand

Charlie Burrows (Joe McGann) is an ex-professional footballer who has had to give the game up due to injury. His young wife died suddenly and he was left to raise their daughter, Joanna (Kellie Bright), on his own. When Joanna gets into yet another fight, he realizes that he needs to obtain a better way of life for her and takes a job as a housekeeper to a rich and divorced career woman, Caroline Wheatley (Diana Weston) . This gives Jo the opportunity to go to a better school and have a female role model in her life. Caroline is uptight and very repressed. She lives in a wonderful house in Henley with her son, Tom (William Puttock) and her mother, Laura (Honor Blackman) and doesn't want a 'hunk' of a male to be housekeeper even though her mother has already employed him. Of course as the show progresses we see that

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 76341
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired May 1, 1990
  • Recent October 14, 1996
  • Network ITV1
  • Average Runtime 30 minutes
  • Genres Comedy
  • Original Country Great Britain
  • Original Language English
  • On Other Sites IMDB TheMovieDB.com
  • Episode Screenshot Format 4:3 Screencap
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Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials 0
Season 1 May 1990 December 1990 13
Season 2 February 1991 May 1991 12
Season 3 November 1991 February 1992 13
Season 4 October 1992 February 1993 19
Season 5 September 1993 December 1993 16
Season 6 January 1995 April 1995 15
Season 7 September 1996 October 1996 7
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Season 2 April 1991 1
Unassigned Episodes 94
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 95
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Martin Shardlow 7 01/18/1993 - 09/30/1993
Martin Dennis 6 03/11/1991 - 11/05/1991
Mike Holgate 3 03/18/1991 - 04/29/1991
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Ellen Guylas 2 05/20/1991 - 11/05/1991
Prudence Fraser 2 03/11/1991 - 05/20/1991
Bud Wiser 2 04/08/1991 - 01/18/1993
Robert Sternin 2 03/11/1991 - 05/20/1991
Renee Phillips 2 04/15/1991 - 05/13/1991
Carrie Honigblum 2 04/15/1991 - 05/13/1991
Alan L. Gansberg 1 04/22/1991
Paul Robinson Hunter 1 03/18/1991
Steve Curwick 1 04/15/1991
Michele Baehler Glazer 1 05/13/1991
Michele J. Wolff 1 09/30/1993
Claylene Jones 1 09/23/1993
Seth Weisbrod 1 05/06/1991
Clay Graham 1 09/16/1993
Caly Graham 1 09/16/1993
Gene Braunstein 1 09/09/1993
Michele Buckler Glazer 1 04/15/1991
Daniel Palladino 1 01/25/1993
Michael J. Wolfe 1 02/22/1993

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