The Duchess of Duke Street: Series 1

At the end of the 19th century, ambitious scullery maid Louisa Leyton (Gemma Jones) works as assistant chef to Monsieur Alex (George Pravda) and rubs elbows with the rich and powerful. After persevering through a turbulent marriage and financial hardship, Louisa becomes mistress of the successful Bentinck Hotel in London. The series traces Louisa's triumphant, 20-year ascent.

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This was an outstanding British production about a woman in 1900 who has ambitions beyond her class and through determination and some unexpected events, eventually achieves them on Duke Street with some interesting results. I watched this one online, but didn't realize how many episodes there were. I watched for 5 ½ hours (Series 1, Discs 1,2, and halfway through 3/5). Every episode was good and I expect all future ones would have been good, too, although the original premise, the one I liked the most, had long since disappeared.
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