Nearly a Happy Ending

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{{Use British English|date=July 2012}}

{{Infobox television

| image = Nearly_a_Happy_Ending.jpg

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| caption = Opening title

| genre = Comedy

| runtime = 66 minutes

| creator = Victoria Wood

| director = Baz Taylor

| starring = Victoria Wood
Julie Walters

| country = United Kingdom

| network = ITV

| released = {{Start date|1980|06|01|df=y}}

| num_series = 1

| num_episodes = 1

| producer = Peter Eckersley

| related =

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Nearly A Happy Ending is a television play written by Victoria Wood, which ITV broadcast on 1 June 1980.{{cite web

| title =Nearly A Happy Ending (1981)(TV)

| publisher =IMDb

| year =2007

| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181245/fullcredits#cast

| accessdate =2007-11-07}}

It is a sequel to Wood's earlier play Talent, with the same lead characters: Julie (played by Julie Walters) and Maureen (played by Wood); although some minor plot points from Talent are either ignored or contradicted in this play.

According to the BFI's Screenonline website, the plot concerns "Maureen's ill-fated attempts to lose her virginity at a dismal salesmen's party in a Manchester hotel".{{cite web

| last =Duguid

| first =Mark

| title =Screenonline - Talent (1979)

| publisher =British Film Institute

| date =July 2003

| url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1241050/index.html

| accessdate = 2007-11-07 }}