Episode 1
Aired Oct 3, 1999
A Rather English Marriage
Two British widowed war veterans become unlikely roommates.
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Episode 2
Aired Oct 10, 1999
Aristocrats
The four Lennox sisters, great-granddaughters of King Charles II and his mistress, court scandal with their daring matches and ideas in 18th-century England and Ireland.
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Episode 3
Aired Oct 17, 1999
Aristocrats
Teenage Sarah enchants the Prince of Wales, but the relationship collapses; Sarah must wed a cad, to whom she is openly unfaithful.
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Episode 4
Aired Oct 24, 1999
Aristocrats
Emily romances her children's penniless tutor; Edward brews an Irish revolution; Sarah settles down; Charles gains political stature; Louisa has views on class and poverty.
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Episode 5
Aired Oct 31, 1999
Lost for Words
A devoted man (Pete Postlethwaite) helps his 87-year-old mother (Thora Hird) maintain her independence after a series of strokes.
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Episode 6
Aired Nov 21, 1999
Shooting the Past
Librarians (Lindsay Duncan, Timothy Spall) thwart a U.S. millionaire (Liam Cunningham) planning to turn a London mansion full of rare photos into a business college.
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Episode 7
Aired Nov 28, 1999
Shooting the Past
After receiving a mysterious message from her discharged colleague, librarian Marilyn races to save the Fallon Photo Library.
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Episode 8
Aired Jan 9, 2000
Bramwell
Victorian physician Eleanor Bramwell (Jemma Redgrave) is shattered to learn that Finn O'Neil has wed an American.
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Episode 9
Aired Jan 16, 2000
Bramwell
Dr. Bramwell (Jemma Redgrave) learns that Nurse Carr has been mistreating her deranged mother.
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Episode 10
Aired Jan 23, 2000
Bramwell
Dr. Bramwell (Jemma Redgrave) stays with friends to recuperate from her shattered love affair.
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Episode 11
Aired Jan 30, 2000
Bramwell
Robert needs to borrow money to open his own office; Eleanor (Jemma Redgrave) learns Robert will marry.
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Episode 12
Aired Feb 6, 2000
Madame Bovary
Emma Bovary, the wife of a village doctor, seeks passion in her lonely life.
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Episode 13
Aired Feb 13, 2000
Madame Bovary
Emma Bovary realizes, although too late, her husband was her only true friend.
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Episode 14
Aired Feb 20, 2000
All the King's Men
The legendary fate of the Norfolk Regiment, working class men whose reputations were won at the battle of Gallipoli in 1915.
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Episode 15
Aired Feb 27, 2000
The Turn of the Screw
An English governess tries to shield two children from ghosts in an adaptation of the Henry James tale.
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Episode 16
Aired Apr 16, 2000
David Copperfield
David Copperfield's happy childhood takes a turn for the worse when his widowed mother marries a stern disciplinarian who ships him off to a boarding school.
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Episode 17
Aired Apr 17, 2000
David Copperfield
Heep ruins Mr. Wickfield and Aunt Betsey, leaving David and Mr. Micawber to expose his fraud and restore their finances.
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Episode 18
Aired Apr 30, 2000
Seeing Red
Actress Coral Atkins alters her lifestyle and starts a children's home.
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Episode 19
Aired May 7, 2000
Monsignor Renard
A Gestapo officer searches for an escaped English soldier.
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Episode 20
Aired May 14, 2000
Monsignor Renard
Germans shoot a French soldier for stealing bread.
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Episode 21
Aired May 21, 2000
Monsignor Renard
Helene considers adoption or abortion for her unborn child.
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