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3	''Widows'' is a British primetime television crime drama that was broadcast in 1983, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television and aired on the ITV network. The series and its 1985 sequel were written by crime writer {{Creator/Lynda La Plante}}. The executive producer for the series was Creator/VerityLambert. In 1984 it was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series or Serial.
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5	The series focuses on Dolly Rawlins (Ann Mitchell), a recently made widow. After her husband, Harry, died along with two others in a bank job gone horribly wrong, she discovers her late husband's plans for one last heist. Armed with this information, she gathers the other two widows, Linda Perelli (Maureen O'Farrell) and Shirley Miller (Fiona Hendley), along with new recruit Bella O'Reilly (Eva Mottley in Series 1, Debby Bishop in Series 2), to pull off her husband's heist. But fate has other plans....
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7	The series was a major hit, and was followed by a second series in 1985, and the follow up series ''She's Out'' in 1995. La Plante also wrote novelizations of all three series.
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9	[[Creator/SteveMcQueenDirector Steve [=McQueen=]]] adapted the first series as [[Film/{{Widows}} the film of the same name]] in 2018.
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12	!!This series contains examples of:
13	* ActionGirl: All four women. ''She's Out'' also includes the formerly incarcerated women that recruit Dolly.
14	* BankRobbery
15	* BritishBrevity: Six episodes in each series.
16	* TheCaper
17	* CouchPotato: Linda after her assault in Rio in ''Widow's Revenge''.
18	* EverybodySmokes: As it's the 80's, both the criminals and the police frequently light up.
19	* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Harry Rawlins. Turns out the mysterious 'fourth man' who supposedly escaped the accident was one of the ones who died and Harry was the one who got away.]]
20	* FourTemperamentEnsemble:
21	** Dolly is melancholic.
22	** Bella is choleric.
23	** Shirley is phlegmatic.
24	** Linda is sanguine to begin with, but becomes more of a BrokenBird.
25	* {{Gayngster}}: Arnie Fisher
26	* HollywoodDrowning: Harry attacks Linda at the hideout in Rio and attempts to drown her. He fails.
27	* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Bella is one.
28	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Linda, Shirley, and Harry in ''Widow's Revenge'', and Dolly herself in the last episode of ''She's Out'']]
29	* LipstickLesbian: Ester and Julia
30	* PostRobberyTrauma: Shirley goes through this in spades.
31	* ShootTheDog: Dolly's poor dog Heidi (Wolf in the novel) dies during the scuffle with Shirley and Harry, when the latter accidentally steps on it.
32	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Ester Freeman (not Esther)

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