''The Manageress'' is a television series about a woman who becomes manager of a professional
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
team. It ran from 1989 to 1990 and had two seasons.
The series starred
Cherie Lunghi as Gabriella Benson and
Warren Clarke as the chairman of the second division club. It was independently produced for Channel 4 by
Glenn Wilhide and
Sophie Balhetchet at their production company, ZED Ltd. It was written by Stan Hey and Neville Smith and directed by Christopher King. The series aired for two series of six episodes on
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is state-owned enterprise, publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded en ...
in 1989 and 1990.
The first-season episodes were published by Penguin Books in novel form in 1989. The author was named as Stan Hey.
The series was dubbed into French for French television and the title was translated as ''Miss Manager et ses footballeurs''.
German title was ''Unser Boss ist eine Frau''.
Cast
Episodes
Season One
# A Man's Game
# Fit
# The Management Reserves the Right
# Collapsible Brollies
# One of Us
# Home and Away
Season Two
# Doing the Business
# Pingvin Lakrids
# Steal Your Heart Away
# A Hundred and Ten Percent
# A Match for Anyone
# At the End of the Day
References
External links
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The Manageressat the BFI database
1989 British television series debuts
1990 British television series endings
1980s British drama television series
1990s British drama television series
Channel 4 television dramas
British sports television series
British English-language television shows
Television shows set in the United Kingdom
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