Episode 6: Three Men at the Tubs It's Christmas at Barbary Lane where DeDe's happiness is short lived, Mrs Madrigal says goodbye to a friend and Mary Ann makes a shocking discovery about her neighbour.

Welcome toTales of the City.San Francisco 1976: a golden city of freedom, adventure and possibility. But, as naïve small-town girl Mary Ann finds out, it can be hard to find your place in a strange new city - especially when the supermarket is a pick up joint and a Jockey Shorts dance contest can make or break a relationship. Luckily for Mary Ann, she finds the perfect home at 28 Barbary Lane where the dysfunctional residents form an unconventional family of waifs and strays. Mona the cynic, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver the romantic looking for love and DeDe the jaded debutante, all watched over by the eccentric and mysterious Anna Madrigal.

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Armistead Maupin is the author of nine novels including the groundbreakingTales of the Cityseries. Originally serialised in the San Francisco Chronicle and later published as a bestselling series of books,Tales of the Citywas made into three televised mini-series and has sold over a million copies worldwide. It also won the Big Gay Read in 2006 as voted for by readers across the UK and has since been made into an opera which was premiered in San Francisco in 2011.

Maupin lives in San Francisco with his husband, Christopher Turner. www.armisteadmaupin.com