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The Duchess of Duke Street
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TV Show
First Air Date: September 4, 1976
Last Air Date: December 24, 1977
Genre: Drama
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 31
Episode Runtime: 50 min
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Cast: Gemma Jones
Created By: John Hawkesworth
Network: BBC One
Overview
The Duchess of Duke Street is a British television period drama created and written by John Hawkesworth, loosely based on the real-life career of Rosa Lewis, and produced by the BBC and Time-Life Television Productions for BBC One. The programme ran for two series from 1976 to 1977. In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.