The Girls of Slender Means is a 1975 BBC television mini-series based on Muriel Spark's novel. The drama, aired in three parts, follows a group of young women living in a London boarding house in 1945, and is framed by a death that occurs in 1960.
In London 1945, when a world and a war were winding up with a bang, all the nice people were poor - especially the girls of the May of Teck Club fighting it out to the last clothing coupon.
Poor, but savage, the girls of the May of Teck welcome Nicholas Farringdon , handsome anarchist and self-proclaimed genius, who is introduced to the club by Jane.
Selina has claimed Nicholas from Jane who is too big for the lavatory window, the gateway to romance on the roof. Soon it's to become a way of life or death.