The House of Eliott

Drama

The House of Eliott is a British television series produced and broadcast by the BBC in three series between 31 August 1991 – 6 March 1993. The series starred Stella Gonet as Beatrice Eliott and Louise Lombard as Evangeline Eliott, two sisters in 1920s London who establish a dressmaking business and eventually their own haute couture fashion house, Maggie Ollerenshaw as their loyal, but sharp mannered head of workroom Florence Ranby and Aden Gillett as photographer and film maker Jack Maddox. It was created by Jean Marshand Eileen Atkins, who had previously devised Upstairs, Downstairs . The series was written by several writers including Jill Hyem, Peter Buckman, Deborah Cook and Ginnie Hole.