• Series: Absolutely Fabulous

• Genre: Comedy
• Movie Type: Comedy of Manners, Sitcom
• Themes: Eccentric Families, Parenthood, Suburban Dysfunction
• Director: Bob Spiers
• Release Year: 1992
• Country: UK
• Run Time: 30 minutes

Plot

When Edina (Jennifer Saunders) takes up with her first boyfriend in ages, Patsy (Joanna Lumley) finds her role in her best friend's life suddenly reduced even though she's recently moved into the Monsoon household. Even worse, she actually has to show up at work for once -- to attend a meeting with fast-talking editor Magda (Kathy Burke); dim, ornamental staffers Catriona (Helen Lederer) and Fleur (Harriet Thorpe); and the ridiculously erudite gourmand Hamish (Adrian Edmondson). Suckered into giving a pair of fashion nobodies a makeover on a chat show hosted by unassuming everywoman Kathy (Dawn French), Pats makes a Faustian pact with Saffron (Julia Sawalha): If Saf and Gran (June Whitfield) will become her sartorial guinea pigs, she'll move back into her own flat and she won't try to destroy Eddy's new romance. Originally broadcast on BBC 1 on December 10, 1992, Absolutely Fabulous: Magazine marked series one, episode five of this popular Brit-com. French, who co-created the original sketch on which "AbFab" was based, appears as cheerful TV host Kathy. Acclaimed comedic and character actress Burke makes first of several appearances as the no-nonsense Magda. In a flashback sequence, Eleanor Bron also appears as Patsy's mother; Bron would appear again in Absolutely Fabulous: Birth. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

Cast

Eleanor Bron - Patsy's Mother
Adrian Edmondson - Hamish
Dawn French - Kathy
Joanna Lumley - Patsy Stone
Jennifer Saunders - Edina Monsoon
Harriet Thorpe - Fleur
Kathy Burke - Magda
Julia Sawalha - Saffron
June Whitfield - Mother/Gran
Helen Lederer - Catriona

Credit

Jennifer Saunders - Screenwriter; Jon Plowman - Producer; Bob Spiers - Director