Babes in the Wood is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 sitcom

Situation comedy

A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...

 that aired on ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 from 1998 to 1999. Starring Karl Howman

Karl Howman

Karl Howman is an English actor and also a British voice-over artist.He is well known but notable to many television viewers for his work as Jacko in the mid-1980's and early-90's BBC TV sitcom Esmonde and Larbey's Brush Strokes and as the title character in the series Mulberry .However Howman first...

 and Denise van Outen

Denise van Outen

Denise van Outen is an English actress, singer and television presenter. Her most notable roles to date are as a presenter on The Big Breakfast, and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago on both the West End and on Broadway.- Early life :Born Denise Kathleen Outen in Basildon, Essex, she is the...

, Babes in the Wood was written by Geoff Deane, Paul Alexander

Paul Alexander (British writer)

Paul Alexander is a British comedy writer. He has written or contributed to My Hero, Red Dwarf, The 10 Percenters, My Spy Family, Babes in the Wood, The Castle, Horrid Henry, Bedsitcom, Oggy and the Cockroaches and The Green Green Grass.-External links:...

, Simon Braithwaite, Ian Searle and Fleur Costello.

Cast

• Denise van Outen
  Denise van Outen
  Denise van Outen is an English actress, singer and television presenter. Her most notable roles to date are as a presenter on The Big Breakfast, and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago on both the West End and on Broadway.- Early life :Born Denise Kathleen Outen in Basildon, Essex, she is the...
  
   - Leigh Jackson
• Natalie Walter
  Natalie Walter
  Natalie Walter is a British actress who is best known for her film, theatre and television roles. She was born in Woking, Surrey in 1974. Her father is David Walter, the former BBC and ITN journalist. She studied at London's prestigious Drama Centre, where one of her classmates was the comedian...
  
   - Caralyn Monroe/Munroe
• Karl Howman
  Karl Howman
  Karl Howman is an English actor and also a British voice-over artist.He is well known but notable to many television viewers for his work as Jacko in the mid-1980's and early-90's BBC TV sitcom Esmonde and Larbey's Brush Strokes and as the title character in the series Mulberry .However Howman first...
  
   - Charlie Lovall
• Mark Hayford - Benito
• Samantha Janus
  Samantha Janus
  Samantha Zoe Womack is an English actress, singer and director, both on television and stage. In recent years she has been best known for playing the role of Ronnie Branning in EastEnders, but made her name in the early 1990s as Mandy Wilkins in Game On, and also represented the United Kingdom in...
  
   - Ruth Ford/Frause (series 1 and 1998 special)
• Madeleine Curtis - Francesca "Frankie" Fraiser-Jones (series 2)
• James Buller - Nick (series 2)

Plot

Babes in the Wood revolves around three women in their 20s who share a flat in St John's Wood

St John's Wood

St John's Wood is a district of north-west London, England, in the City of Westminster, and at the north-west end of Regent's Park. It is approximately 2.5 miles north-west of Charing Cross. Once part of the Great Middlesex Forest, it was later owned by the Knights of St John of Jerusalem...

 in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

. Leigh is streetwise and tough, while Ruth is bossy and Caralyn is bossy. In the flat next door lives Charlie Lovall, the former owner of a video shop whose divorce has cost him dear, although he still has his Porsche

Porsche

Porsche Automobil Holding SE, usually shortened to Porsche SE a Societas Europaea or European Public Company, is a German based holding company with investments in the automotive industry....

. Leigh works as a waitress

Waiter

Waiting staff, wait staff, or waitstaff are those who work at a restaurant or a bar attending customers — supplying them with food and drink as requested. Traditionally, a male waiting tables is called a "waiter" and a female a "waitress" with the gender-neutral version being a "server"...

 for public school

Public School (UK)

A public school, in common British usage, is a school that is neither administered nor financed by the state or from taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of endowments, tuition fees and charitable contributions, usually existing as a non profit-making charitable trust...

-educated Benito at the nearby Bar Coda. Ruth marries an old millionaire and leaves after the first series and is replaced by would be model

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

Frankie.

Series One (1998)

1. Episode One (23 July 1998)
2. Episode Two (30 July 1998)
3. Episode Three (6 August 1998)
4. Episode Four (13 August 1998)
5. Episode Five (20 August 1998)
6. Episode Six (27 August 1998)

Series Two (1999)

1. Episode One (13 July 1999)
2. Episode Two (20 July 1999)
3. Episode Three (27 July 1999)
4. Episode Four (3 August 1999)
5. Episode Five (10 August 1999)
6. Episode Six (17 August 1999)
7. Episode Seven (24 August 1999)