Affairs of the Heart

Series 1

1974 · 7 episodes · 5h 50m in all

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Emma

   29 Sept 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. 2

   2. Flora

   6 Oct 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. 3

   3. Grace

   13 Oct 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. 4

   4. Mary and Louise

   20 Oct 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. 5

   5. Adela

   27 Oct 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. 6

   6. Catherine

   3 Nov 1974 · 50 min

   A wealthy doctor is suspicious of a handsome man courting Catherine, his plain daughter.

7. 7

   7. Bessie

   10 Nov 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.