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Joanna Lumley stars in this energetic, sexy, comic romp about a woman who finds her life changed forever in a single night. Aristocratic Kate Swift has always lived the champagne lifestyle, until her unsavoury husband disappears, leaving her in trouble and in debt. However, Kate is at her best in a good fight. She forms an unlikely alliance with a young, Australian burglaréss and a cowardly wreck of a journalist. Together they discover what happened to her husband and - most important - where the money went. Wit, instinct, theft and sex are the dubious tools of their trade as they try to stay out of jail - and the poorhouse.
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Class Act (1994)
Class Act is a British comedy-drama series produced by Verity Lambert, and starring Joanna Lumley, Nadine Garner, and John Bowe. The series ran for two seasons of seven episodes each. Broadcast on ITV1, the first premiered on 7 April 1994, until 19 May. The second ran from 7 September to 19 October 1995. Desperate times call for desperate measures when aristocratic Kate Swift's rich husband disappears and she is forced to give up her champagne lifestyle.