Tears Before Bedtime

50min

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.

Episodes

Cast

Episode 1

1. Episode 1

50min

8th Jan 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.

Episode 2

2. Episode 2

50min

15th Jan 1995

Who is Stuart having an affair with? The nannies investigate. Sarah finds herself in an increasingly fraught entanglement with Ben and Katherine.

Episode 3

3. Episode 3

50min

22nd Jan 1995

Beattie and Stuart's marriage is deteriorating, and Lisa is out for revenge.

Episode 4

4. Episode 4

50min

29th Jan 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.

First air date

8th Jan 1995

Last air date

29th Jan 1995

Status

Returning Series

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks