First broadcast 17/24th December 1977.
Louisa and Lottie are at loggerheads -- Louisa wants her daughter to be a proper lady, as befits the daughter of a Viscount.
Change is in the air at the hotel and in the lives of its many residents.
Gemma Jones ... Louisa Trotter
Lalla Ward ... Lottie
June Brown ... Violet Leyton
John Rapley ... Ernest Leyton
Jeremy Nicholas ... Nick Somers
Richard Vernon ... Major Smith-Barton
John Cater ... Starr
John Welsh ... Merriman
Victoria Plucknett ... Mary
Christine Pollon ... Aunt Gwyneth
James Woolley ... Colonel Fitzsimmons
Peter Whitaker ... Clergyman
Anna Calder-Marshall ... Sophie Applegate
Richard Vernon Richard Vernon ... Major Smith-Barton
Mary Healey ... Mrs. Cochrane
Sammie Winmill ... Ethel
Jacqueline Reddin ... Petal
Stephen Bone ... Julian
Ian Collier ... Nigel
Richard Longman ... Ronnie
Anthony Roye ... Hugo 'Saffron' Walden
Francis Reneau ... Pianist
Mark Blackwell Baker ... The Hon. Thingummy-Jig
Charmian May ... Danish Countess
Martin Matthews ... Reporter
Peter Bale ... Waiter
Peter Jessup ... Keith
