NOVEMBER 6, 1983 – The TV miniseries “Princess Daisy” debuted on ABC, featuring Ringo Starr (as a gay fashion designer in one of his last acting roles) and his wife Barbara Bach. Based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Judith Krantz, “Princess Daisy” tells the story of a young girl who is sent to England to live with her father, Prince Valenski, after her mother’s death in a car crash. Unfortunately, Daisy is immediately separated from her twin sister Dani, who is a special needs child not accepted by their father. When Daisy turns 16, their father dies in a plane accident, and the girl is forced to take care of her life herself, especially when her half-brother Ram starts seeing in her more than just a sister. She flees and fights her way to the top of the modeling profession and falls in love with a company president. But then, her half-brother arrives on the scene, ready to blackmail and destroy her.
Richard Corliss wrote of the miniseries, “Not even trash can guarantee the happy ending, and, alas, it happened to Jane Doe: ‘Princess Daisy’ proved a small screen bust.” However, The Guardian was more positive; while it criticized the acting, it concluded, “Despite all that, Princess Daisy is much better quality kitsch than ‘Lace.’ It has all the same, essential mini-series requirements: vulgar opulence, beautiful people, international locations, the lot. But it also has a strong, closely packed story line, with the kind of fairy tale elements—the mirror image twin, the evil step-relation—that can remind you of childhood frissons; and it has characters in place of those perambulating coat hangers we had last week. And if we customers don’t take the trouble to distinguish between good and bad rubbish, you know exactly what kind we will get in future.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQQypLLa1hQ
