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Behaving Badly is a 1989 British television serial directed by David Tucker. The teleplay by Catherine Heath and Moira Williams is based on Heath's novel of the same name. It was initially broadcast by Channel 4. The series was released on DVD in 2005.

The plot focuses on Bridget Mayor, a middle-aged housewife and part-time teacher who is forced to re-evaluate her life when her husband of twenty years abandons her for a younger woman.
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00:15was it really five years ago? it hasn't changed at all well why should it? I
00:24remember the last time we were here the three of us it was one of those
00:28wonderful days you get in early spring when suddenly you're sure it's going to
00:32be a perfect summer
00:37by that evening all Philida's freckles had come out and she got terribly cross as
00:41she had a date I won't be late hey cheer up dad
00:58with a lovely day I thought it'd been a lovely day too I hadn't even noticed what
01:08Mark had been going through that shows how insensitive I've become I mean when he
01:15said our life was boring and suburban and middle-aged I could see what he meant but
01:21I hadn't any idea no idea at all so I can hardly make a big production of it now
01:30Bridget we have to talk I'm listening this is the trickiest bit I didn't spend last
01:42night in Birmingham I spent it in Putney but we don't know anyone in Putney
01:55her name's Rebecca she's a journalist she's a bit younger than I am about a lot
02:06really it doesn't matter I'm trying to think of a way to tell you this kindly but there isn't one
02:14there Bridget I'm in love and she Rebecca seems to love me
02:49all I could think of was the fact that I bought tenho
02:51but for supper. And you know, one can hardly ever get it these days, and Mark did like
02:56it so. And I made all that Hollandaise, and I thought, oh dear, our lovely dinner's going
03:02to be wasted. So when he told me about this girl, I said, oh yes, I see. Oh, thank you
03:11for telling me.
03:22And that was all, and we ate the turbot. And you know, I quite enjoyed it. So I mean,
03:40there's no point in putting on a tragic act. It stands to reason nobody, but nobody that
03:45greedy has much dignity to stand on. What did you think, Mrs. Mayer, when your husband
03:54told you he was in love with another woman? I thought about turbot.
04:18My sis physiologist says, Andrew, what does he want to do with cohorts?
04:20Ah, wasn't it? Well, I'm not necessarily bringing that up. It is really clear that how
04:39do I have some friends in your own life, and you know, your husband praying for 26 Prelimin,
04:41and you know, we've got some friends in life. So I think the future can follow us right
04:41as well that I am.
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