Tears Before Bedtime (1995)
A story of middle-class professional couples who employ full-time live-in nannies to look after their children. The nannies meet up as a collective group, and often discuss their employers' habits in sordid detail. As the plot develops, it becomes clear that most of the nannies are usually stuck in the middle of domestic unsettlement, affairs, neurotic partners, and manipulation.
Tears Before Bedtime: Season 1 - 4 Episode s
1x1 - Episode 1
January 8, 1995
Sarah and David are the last of the group to succumb to hiring a nanny but, when confidences are broken on both sides, romantic betrayal and revenge lead to all-out domestic warfare. And trouble awaits them all when the nanny mafia moves into action.
1x2 - Episode 2
January 15, 1995
Who is Stuart having an affair with? The nannies investigate. Sarah finds herself in an increasingly fraught entanglement with Ben and Katherine.
1x3 - Episode 3
January 22, 1995
Beattie and Stuart's marriage is deteriorating, and Lisa is out for revenge.
1x4 - Episode 4
January 29, 1995
In the final part of the dark comedy, Sarah and David find their marriage and friendship tested to the limit while the "nanny mafia" plot to save the day.
Tears Before Bedtime: 1 Season
Actors in Tears Before Bedtime
Samantha Bond
Sarah Baylis
Adrian Rawlins
David Baylis
Emily Ruck-Keene
Lily Baylis
Julius Grower
William Baylis
Julie Cox
Katherine
Lesley Manville
Beattie Freeman
Richard Hope
Stuart Freeman
Guy Witcher
Hugo Freeman
Antonia Corrigan
Allegra Freeman
Louise Beattie
Maureen
Veronica Quilligan
Teresa Turner
James Purefoy
Jimmy Turner
Michael Mount
Jack Turner
Louisa Sexton
Katie Turner
Anna Pernicci
Ava
Peter Howitt
Ben Farlow
Sian Thomas
Susan
Nicola Cowper
Lisa
Jessica Hynes
Maggie
Toni Barry
Debbie
Rachel Lumberg
Sheila
Harriet Keevil
Mary Grainger