Wicked Women

I too remember this series,I always wondered why they never re-run it,even today it would make compulsive viewing,I remember the one about the one getting starved in the attic it got to the stage that she even ate a spider as she got so hungry and the woman sitting on the stairs eating the dinner that was meant for the women in the attic can you imagine being that hungry and smelling a cooked dinner through the door. I think my parents stopped me watching the rest of the series, has I think they thought it was too disturbing for me it's funny how programmes like this stay with you I'm 50 now I so I must have been 10,when it was on Television,but was it BBC or ITV

I too have often thought about the Wicked Women series;It obviously had an impact on me and i wonder what i would think about it now 37 years on.I was eleven at the time of release and remember being allowed to watch it if homework was done.Upstairs Downstairs is being rerun on Australian pay TV,Foxtel it would be good if they picked this series up,I am sure I would not be the only relocated British person that recalls the sinister deeds of the Victorian women.I recall the greyness of the production so was it made in black and white format?Such a long time ago,but i do remember the poisoned chocolates and the costumes of the period.