Season 7 • Episode 7
LatestThe Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and Columbia Pictures Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom Who's the Boss?. As in the former series, an affluent single woman, raising a son with the help of her mother, hires a housekeeper only to have a man apply for the job.
Acting
Honor Blackman’s gloriously sharp-tongued matriarch.
Writing
British wit softening the American original's broader comedy.
Creator
Blake Hunter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Honor Blackman took the role specifically because she wanted to play comedy after decades of dramatic parts, including her iconic Bond role.
The show exemplifies 1990s ITV's strategy of adapting proven American formats with British casts—see also Men Behaving Badly, though this one stayed far more family-friendly.
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