ITV showed the British sitcom Agony from 1979 to 1981. It featured Maureen Lipman as a successful advice columnist whose personal life and marriage are a mess. The authors are Len Richmond, Anna Raeburn, Stan Hey, and Andrew Nickolds. LWT produced it for the ITV network. Agony was the first British sitcom to portray a gay couple as non-camp, funny, intelligent, and happy. Despite being a comedy, Agony occasionally dealt with taboo subjects such as drug usage, racism, abortion, interracial partnerships, and swinging. It occasionally had dark and dramatic plots and openly lampooned the government, the ruling classes, and religion.
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ITV showed the British sitcom Agony from 1979 to 1981. It featured Maureen Lipman as a successful advice columnist whose personal life and marriage are a mess. The authors are Len Richmond, Anna Raeburn, Stan Hey, and Andrew Nickolds. LWT produced it for the ITV network. Agony was the first British sitcom to portray a gay couple as non-camp, funny, intelligent, and happy. Despite being a comedy, Agony occasionally dealt with taboo subjects such as drug usage, racism, abortion, interracial partnerships, and swinging. It occasionally had dark and dramatic plots and openly lampooned the government, the ruling classes, and religion.
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