Love Hurts (TV series)

Love Hurts is a British comedy-drama series that was broadcast from 3 January 1992 to 18 March 1994 on BBC1.^[1][2] It was scripted by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran and starred Adam Faith as Frank Carver, Zoë Wanamaker as Tessa Piggott,^[3] Tony Selby as Max Taplow and Jane Lapotaire as Diane Warburg.^[4] Zoë Wanamaker received a 1993 Best Actress BAFTA nomination for her work in the series.^[5]

Love Hurts
Genre	Comedy drama
Created by	Maurice Gran Laurence Marks
Starring	Adam Faith Zoë Wanamaker Jane Lapotaire Tony Selby Richard Cordery
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	30
Production
Executive producer	Allan McKeown
Running time	50 minutes
Production company	Alomo Productions
Original release
Network	BBC1
Release	3 January 1992 (1992-01-03) – 18 March 1994 (1994-03-18)

The theme tune was written by Alan Hawkshaw and performed by Peter Polycarpou.

Plot

When her married long-term boyfriend (who was also her boss) decides to end their relationship for a younger woman, Tessa Piggott (Zoë Wanamaker) leaves her high powered City career and, determined to change her life and leave the rat race, with the help of an old university friend (Jane Lapotaire) – who is also a rabbi, takes a job supervising a charitable Third World development agency. She also resolves to give up relationships, until that is, she meets wealthy and roguish 'hands on' entrepreneur Frank Carver (Adam Faith), who has built up his successful plumbing business from scratch, and romance beckons. Their 'on/off' romance follows throughout the three series, often complicated by their numerous friends, family and colleagues.