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* BritainIsOnlyLondon: Oddly so for a British programme. There are many alternate versions of London, but the rest of England is rarely mentioned.

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* BritainIsOnlyLondon: Oddly so for a British programme. There are many alternate versions of London, but the rest of England is rarely mentioned. Edna's home town of Towcester gets the occasional look-in but that's about it.
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* OutdatedName: Our narrator lampshades how unusual it is for a 20-something woman in The2000s to be named Edna and jokes about being "the youngest Edna ever!".

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* HappyEndingOverride: The promise of this is used as a SequelHook at the series of series 2. Series 3 follows through on it.

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* HappyEndingOverride: The promise of this is used as a SequelHook at the series end of series 2. Series 3 follows through on it.
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At three series (so far), this is one of the longest running comedy dramas made especially for BBC Radio 7. Undone tells the story of Edna Turner, and her new job in London. When she arrives to work for "Get Out!" Magazine, she discovers that there is a weirder version of London, called 'Undone'. She is given a second job, to patrol the gaps between, and stop the weirdness coming through, helped by her new friend and mentor, Tankerton Slopes.

In the first series finale, we discover the existence of many other parallel Londons, such as Donlon, a more boring version, or LONDON!, where everyone is an angry cockney. We also meet Edna's half-sister, Ida, and their father, The Prince. A forth series is expected some time in the future.

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At three series (so far), series, this is one of the longest running comedy dramas made especially for BBC Radio 7. Undone tells the story of Edna Turner, and her new job in London. When she arrives to work for "Get Out!" Magazine, she discovers that there is a weirder version of London, called 'Undone'. She is given a second job, to patrol the gaps between, and stop the weirdness coming through, helped by her new friend and mentor, Tankerton Slopes.

In the first series finale, we discover the existence of many other parallel Londons, such as Donlon, a more boring version, or LONDON!, where everyone is an angry cockney. We also meet Edna's half-sister, Ida, and their father, The Prince. A forth series is expected some time in the future.\n


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* BenevolentBoss: Edna's boss, Carlo Jones, is one of the nicest people you could possibly meet.


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* SequelHook: The second series in particular ends on an enormous one, with Edna telling us that despite the apparent happy ending to that series, within a year one of the people present in the series finale [[TonightSomeoneDies would be dead]] and Undone would be destroyed.
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* LondonTown: The show is set almost entirely within London. The stereotypes exist as alternate versions.
* UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground: Heavily features in the 3rd series episode "Underground", surprisingly. Also, the first episode's title, "Mind the Gaps", comes from the Underground announcement.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: Each of the three series ends this way.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: The final scene of series 3, "I'm [[spoiler:Golfer Mackenzie]], and welcome to Undone."


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* RippleEffectProofMemory: The final scene of the last episode "Unending" suggests that this applies to [[spoiler:Golfer Mackenzie]].

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->''Strange is good''
-->Edna Turner, {{Undone}}

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->''Strange ->''"Strange is good''
-->Edna Turner, {{Undone}}
good."''
-->--'''Edna Turner'''



This series contains examples of:
* ADayInTheLimelight In series 2, we get an episode from (London) Carlo's bewildered point of view

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This series contains examples of:
* ADayInTheLimelight In series 2, we get an episode from (London) Carlo's bewildered point of view
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* BritainIsOnlyLondon Oddly so for a British programme. There are many alternate versions of London, but the rest of England is rarely mentioned.
* {{Foreshadowing}} Plenty of this throughout.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Except for the pilot, all the episode titles begin with "Un".
* LondonTown The show is set almost entirely within London. The stereotypes exist as alternate versions.
* MineralMacguffin The Gem, split into five Gemlets, a key part of series 2.
* TheLondonUnderground Heavily features in the 3rd series episode Underground, surprisingly. Also, the first episode's title, "Mind the Gaps" comes from the Underground announcement.
* UnreliableNarrator Mentioned as a possibility in the third series finale.
* UnseenAudience Series 3 finale. Edna has been telling this story to [[spoiler:all the other characters, as a part of the Cancellation Point]].

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* BritainIsOnlyLondon BritainIsOnlyLondon: Oddly so for a British programme. There are many alternate versions of London, but the rest of England is rarely mentioned.
* {{Foreshadowing}} ADayInTheLimelight: In series 2, we get an episode from (London) Carlo's bewildered point of view
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
Plenty of this throughout.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Except for the pilot, all the episode titles begin with "Un".
* LondonTown LondonTown: The show is set almost entirely within London. The stereotypes exist as alternate versions.
* MineralMacguffin The Gem, split into five Gemlets, a key part of series 2.
* TheLondonUnderground
UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground: Heavily features in the 3rd series episode Underground, "Underground", surprisingly. Also, the first episode's title, "Mind the Gaps" Gaps", comes from the Underground announcement.
* UnreliableNarrator MineralMacguffin: The Gem, split into five Gemlets, a key part of series 2.
* UnreliableNarrator:
Mentioned as a possibility in the third series finale.
* UnseenAudience UnseenAudience: Series 3 finale. Edna has been telling this story to [[spoiler:all the other characters, as a part of the Cancellation Point]].

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