Years before Elaine Stritch won a Tony and just about every other N.Y. stage award for her hit one-woman show Elaine Stritch: At Liberty, she starred alongside British stage and screen star Donald Sinden in a comedy series considered one of the best of its kind. It has it all: great scripts, great actors, and great chemistry between the stars. Stritch plays a brash American thriller writer living in London who hires the perfect British butler (Sinden) and then struggles to retain the upper hand-and the last word. Cultures clash and sparks fly as she pits her blunt anti-British, pro-feminist views against his old-school attitudes and witheringly polite putdowns. Mostly a two-hander but notable guest stars in the first series include Penelope Keith, Tony Selby, and Joyce Carey. As seen on A&E and public television.
