(1992 - 2002) Romantic comedy television series produced by the BBC and also aired on some American PBS stations. Dame Judi Dench stars as Jean, a widow who in her youth was madly in love with a soldier named Lionel (played by Geoffrey Palmer), until he was shipped off to the Korean War, and they lost touch. Lionel & Jean are re-united forty years later when he hires her secretarial firm to type his memoirs and they rekindle their romance. Also featured are the love lives of Jean's daughter Judith, Judith's best friend Sandy, and Lionel's publisher Alistair.