About this season
Anthology series of thirteen one-hour love stories based on the short stories of Henry James.
Episodes (7)
1. Emma
Aired 29 September 1974 • 50 min
Emma agrees to a pretend engagement with a young Earl in order to protect him from the horde of eligible young women besieging him.
2. Flora
Aired 6 October 1974 • 50 min
Flora Saunt is a beautiful but poor orphan whose only asset is her face, which she uses to secure a marriage to the wealthy but unintelligent Lord Iffield, who doesn't realise she is nearly blind and needs thick, disfiguring spectacles.
3. Grace
Aired 13 October 1974 • 50 min
Mr Prodmore owns the mortgage to the Yule family estate. He will forgive the vast debt if Yule will marry his daughter. The enchanting Grace has other ideas.
4. Mary and Louise
Aired 20 October 1974 • 50 min
Louisa Bridgenorth commissions a portrait of the ideal man. James Mallory turns her down, but knows just the artist, Mary Tredick.
5. Adela
Aired 27 October 1974 • 50 min
Adela, who has taken on the role of running the family since her mother's death, must work to 'save' her father from remarriage and her brother from a scheming music hall artiste.
6. Catherine
Aired 3 November 1974 • 50 min
A wealthy doctor is suspicious of a handsome man courting Catherine, his plain daughter.
7. Bessie
Aired 10 November 1974 • 50 min
Bessie Alden and Lord Lambeth meet in Newport and both seem smitten. Everyone assumes that when Bessie visits London the next spring, she's set on marriage.