Solo (TV series)

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Solo is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1981 to 1982. Starring Felicity Kendal, Solo was written by Carla Lane, a writer well known for having previously written the sitcom Butterflies. Kendal plays Gemma Palmer, a woman who changes her life after discovering her live-in boyfriend has had an affair. rdf:langString

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rdf:langString Six months after telling Danny to leave, Gemma is out cycling one morning when a fellow cyclist 19-year-old Raif Williamson asks her out on a date. She agrees to lunch with him, but half way through the meal they argue and she storms out. However, they soon make up when he goes running after her and they have lots of fun together. Meanwhile, at work she visits Mrs. Mitchell , a troubled mother of seven. After two weeks, Gemma ends the relationship after talking to her mother about the age difference between them.

rdf:langString After seeing her doctor, Mrs. Palmer realises she is going through the menopause, something she finds hard to deal with. She then decides to go away to a hotel for a few days. Howard then surprises her by joining her at the hotel. Rex and Gemma continue to go out with each other, although he is deeply unhappy with her continuing to breakfast with Sebastian. After an argument about this and her future domestic role if they married, he storms out. Meanwhile, Sebastian proposes to Rosie, who accepts. The next day, he tells Gemma that they can no longer breakfast together as Rosie has forbidden it.

rdf:langString Gemma has her first case as a social worker, a Mr and Mrs Thompson , an elderly couple who are in debt to an energy company. Later, Gemma discovers that her mother has a 35-year-old lover, Howard, who she has been seeing for two years. Mrs. Palmer has told him that she is younger than she actually is, and Gemma tells her he has to tell him the truth. She does so and then goes out to buy a bottle of champagne. Meanwhile, Josie tells Jeffrey she is pregnant. He stays with her, but says he is not the "marrying kind". Bernadette is upset that she has no boyfriend.

rdf:langString Gemma meets up with Julia, who tells her that she should have more fun. The following day, Gemma tells her mother that she is lonely in bed. Meanwhile, Gemma keeps getting mysterious phone calls from a man. During a power cut, she meets Sebastian Bale, who lives in the apartment above her, who says he made the calls. That night they sleep together, and when she wakes up in his bed the following morning she is very shocked.

rdf:langString After a day at the Citizens Advice Bureau with Mrs Dean , Gemma gets home to find Danny in her bed. They talk and are just about to embrace when the telephone rings. Gemma answers; it is Julia, her friend, who has just seen her husband in bed with another woman and wants to stay the night at Gemma's, meaning Danny has to leave. Meanwhile, Josie discovers she is pregnant by her new boyfriend Jeffrey.

rdf:langString Since the will reading, Gemma has remembered how when Cissy took her to the Heath, she met up with Jack Higgins, who she loved but could never be with. With the £3000, Gemma decides to buy a car and Sebastian agrees to give her driving lessons, while also buying her a new goldfish. Gemma has a row with her mother over her future, and following that Mrs. Palmer cancels their planned lunch the following day to give Gemma space. At the same time, Sebastian cancels their normal breakfast meeting, as he grows ever closer to his latest woman, Rosie. Meanwhile, at work Mrs. Haywood visits Gemma saying she has left her husband, just when Gemma had got the couple a new house.

rdf:langString After arriving back from her holiday, Gemma discovers that Sebastian has killed her goldfish by overfeeding him. Her mother then visits and tells her that Cissy Wareing, the sister of Mrs. Palmer’s mother, has died aged 82. The next day Gemma goes to say goodbye to her at the funeral home, and remembers the many times Cissy took her to Boxley Heath during her childhood. Shortly after the funeral, Gemma gets a letter from the solicitor Mr. Baines saying that Cissy requested she scattered her ashes on Boxley Heath and a reluctant Gemma does so. At the will reading, Mr. Baines says Gemma is left £3000, and after three other bequests, the rest of the estate is left to pay for a bench on Boxley Heath, to be dedicated to Cissy and Able Seaman Alfred Higgins, who was lost at sea in 1956.

rdf:langString After their weekend at the cottage, Gemma allows Danny to move back into her flat, which delights her mother. Gemma does however turn down his marriage proposal, saying they should live together for one year first. At work, Gemma goes to see Sharon Cartwright , a woman in a high-rise flat, whose mother is living in the lift. After one week, Gemma asks Danny to leave as she feels it is not working. She also wants to be single again. Meanwhile, Josie wants to settle down and marry Geoffrey, and he finds them a bedsit to move in to.

rdf:langString Gemma has an interview to be a social worker, and the interviewer advises her do voluntary social work first at the Citizens Advice Bureau. Her mother strongly advises against it, but Gemma does so anyway. During her first session, working with Mrs Dean , Danny comes in and tells Mrs Dean and Gemma about his problems. Meanwhile, Josie wonders what to wear on her date with her new boyfriend and eventually decides not to go.

rdf:langString After planning to spend a weekend with her mother and Julia, both cancel on Gemma meaning she has to spend the weekend on her own, having previously turned down a chance to go to Danny's cottage. However, when she accidentally locks herself out of her flat, she rings Danny from a neighbour's flat and he comes round with a spare key. When he arrives, he pretends to have forgotten the key, and drives her to the cottage. Meanwhile, Josie feels unweel and worries about the effect pregnancy will affect her body.

rdf:langString Rosie tells Gemma how she has a partner, Rex Collins. Soon after Rex comes round and punches Sebastian, who goes down to Gemma to have his injuries seen to. While in her flat, Rex comes round to apologise and talks to Gemma. The next day, Rex rings and, after saying he and Rosie have separated, he and Gemma go out for dinner. They soon go to bed. However, Rex punches Sebastian when he sees him come out of Gemma’s apartment in the morning, and says he does not want her to breakfast with Sebastian again. Gemma then suggests they end the relationship. Also, Gemma gets a cleaner, Iris Murdoch , whom she soon dislikes.

rdf:langString Following sleeping together, Gemma and Sebastian become friends and he continues to sleep with other women. Gemma goes to her doctor, Dr. Maynard , saying things are always on her mind and he diagnosis anxiety. She then decides to go away on her own for a holiday to a cottage in the countryside. At work, she makes three visits. The first is to an irate couple who are complaining about their outside toilet; the second to Mrs. McNally , whose husband has walked out on her and thirdly to Mr Breck who has been in bed months because his wife annoys him.

rdf:langString When her boyfriend Danny sleeps with her best friend Gloria , Gemma throws Danny out of her flat and quits her office job. Her mother, who would like her to settle down and have a family, despairs when Gemma says she wants more out of her life. She then goes and gets three new jobs, quitting them in all in quick succession. After two weeks apart, Danny asks her to marry him, but she turns him down. Meanwhile, Josie waits unsuccessfully for her latest boyfriend to ring.

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rdf:langString Solo is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1981 to 1982. Starring Felicity Kendal, Solo was written by Carla Lane, a writer well known for having previously written the sitcom Butterflies. Kendal plays Gemma Palmer, a woman who changes her life after discovering her live-in boyfriend has had an affair.

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