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The Upper Hand

Season 3 1991 - 1992

  • 1991-11-05T00:00:00Z on ITV
  • 30m
  • 6h 30m (13 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy
Charlie Burrows (Joe McGann) is an ex-professional footballer who has had to give the game up due to injury. His young wife died suddenly and he was left to raise their daughter, Joanna (Kellie Bright), on his own. When Joanna gets into yet another fight, he realizes that he needs to obtain a better way of life for her and takes a job as a housekeeper to a rich and divorced career woman, Caroline Wheatley (Diana Weston) . This gives Jo the opportunity to go to a better school and have a female role model in her life. Caroline is uptight and very repressed. She lives in a wonderful house in Henley with her son, Tom (William Puttock) and her mother, Laura (Honor Blackman) and doesn't want a 'hunk' of a male to be housekeeper even though her mother has already employed him. Of course as the show progresses we see that

13 episodes

Season Premiere

1991-11-05T00:00:00Z

3x01 Bedtime Story

Season Premiere

3x01 Bedtime Story

  • 1991-11-05T00:00:00Z30m

A local television show wants to do a profile of Caroline as a successful businesswoman, but when they visit her home they get a far from normal picture

1991-11-12T00:00:00Z

3x02 First Date

3x02 First Date

  • 1991-11-12T00:00:00Z30m

Caroline is still unlucky in love, so much so that she even resorts to an escort. Then Charlie states the obvious - they should go out on a date

1991-11-19T00:00:00Z

3x03 Once Bitten, Twice Shy

3x03 Once Bitten, Twice Shy

  • 1991-11-19T00:00:00Z30m

Charlie is not a happy man when he notices a love bite on Jo's neck, and so attempts to ground her

1991-11-26T00:00:00Z

3x04 Older Than Springtime

3x04 Older Than Springtime

  • 1991-11-26T00:00:00Z30m

Charlie gets a 22-year old girlfriend who happens to work for a swish agency, which gives Caroline a new opportunity

1991-12-03T00:00:00Z

3x05 Neighbours

3x05 Neighbours

  • 1991-12-03T00:00:00Z30m

A new family move in next door, but their over-niceness is bound to be covering trouble

1991-12-10T00:00:00Z

3x06 Old Flames

3x06 Old Flames

  • 1991-12-10T00:00:00Z30m

There is poetry in motion when a face from Caroline's past walks in, with shocking news

1991-12-17T00:00:00Z

3x07 Wheels

3x07 Wheels

  • 1991-12-17T00:00:00Z30m

It's Charlie's birthday, and he has his heart set on a new set of wheels, but breaking up is so very hard to do - even when it's with his battered old van

1992-01-07T00:00:00Z

3x08 The Honeymooners

3x08 The Honeymooners

  • 1992-01-07T00:00:00Z30m

Charlie takes Caroline to see him play in a football reunion match, but a distraction of the female kind risks torpedoing the whole weekend

1992-01-14T00:00:00Z

3x09 The Whiz Kid

3x09 The Whiz Kid

  • 1992-01-14T00:00:00Z30m

Charlie feels put out when Caroline brings her devilishly perfect new creative director home, and there is suddenly a new Mr. Popular about house

1992-01-21T00:00:00Z

3x10 Family Ties

3x10 Family Ties

  • 1992-01-21T00:00:00Z30m

Charlie's late wife's father (Jo's grandfather) turns up out of the blue, but what are his real motives?

1992-01-28T00:00:00Z

3x11 The Proposal

3x11 The Proposal

  • 1992-01-28T00:00:00Z30m

Caroline is seeing her accountant Geoffrey, but gets nervous when he needs to see her about a life-changing question

1992-02-04T00:00:00Z

3x12 Business and Pleasure

3x12 Business and Pleasure

  • 1992-02-04T00:00:00Z30m

Caroline gifts Charlie with a high-class golf membership, but Laura wants him to use his charm to get her a rich business client in return.

Season Finale

1992-02-11T00:00:00Z

3x13 Pillow Talk

Season Finale

3x13 Pillow Talk

  • 1992-02-11T00:00:00Z30m

The end of another series, and this time it's Caroline's turn to make an unconscious admission

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