Wild, Wild Women

• Barbara Windsor – Millie
• Derek Francis – Mr Harcourt
• Penelope Keith – Daisy
• Sonia Fox – Ruby
• Jennie Paul – Blossom
• Ronnie Stevens – Clarence
• David Stoll – Lord Hurlingham
• Zena Howard – Lady Hurlingham

• Barbara Windsor – Millie
• Paul Whitsun-Jones – Mr Harcourt
• Pat Coombs – Daisy
• Ken Platt – Albert
• Toni Palmer – Ruby
• Jessie Robins – Blossom
• Daphne Heard – Ginny
• Yvonne Paul – Flo
• Anna Karen – Maude
• Joan Sanderson – Mrs Harcourt

This period sitcom, set in 1902, was a variation of The Rag Trade, which was also written by Chesney and Wolfe. Barbara Windsor, who also starred in The Rag Trade, played Millie, a cockney woman who led the women in a milliner's shop. The storylines focused around the conflict between the female workers and the management, Mr Harcourt and his apprentice Albert. Reflecting the mood of Britain in the late 1960s, the women adopted a new feisty spirit not seen in most characters in The Rag Trade. In the pilot the women were shown as strong supporters of the suffragette movement, but it was decided not to make much of this in the series.

The series failed to attract the same popularity as The Rag Trade, and was decommissioned after the first series. Only episode 3 still exists.^[1]