The Onedin Line - Season One - 4-DVD Box Set ( The Onedin Line - Season 1 )

The Onedin Line - Season One - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$40.99

Alternate Title: The Onedin Line - Season 1
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
627 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1971 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
William Slater

Written By:
Cyril Abraham

Actors:
Peter Gilmore ..... James Onedin
Jessica Benton ..... Elizabeth
Philip Bond ..... Albert Frazer
Edward Chapman ..... Mr. Callon
Edward Dentith ..... Captain Davies
Robert Gillespie ..... Drummond
James Hayter ..... Capt. Webster
John Kidd ..... Agnew
Howard Lang ..... Baines
Declan Mulholland ..... Mr. Simpson
Maureen Nelson ..... Mrs. Furlong
Brian Rawlinson ..... Robert Onedin
Cyril Shaps ..... Braganza
Anne Stallybrass ..... Anne Webster / Onedin
Mary Webster ..... Sarah Onedin

Synopsis:

James Onedin (Peter Gilmore) is the son of a waterside shopkeeper who has died and left him with no inheritance. All James has is a legacy of £25 and a shrewd, business mind. Despite his scheming sister and her husband who run a rival shipping company, he is resolute in his attempt to start a shipping line in a changing world.

Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: The Wind Blows Free

Original Air Date-15 October 1971

Season 1, Episode 2: Plain Salling

Original Air Date-22 October 1971

Season 1, Episode 3: Other Points of the Compass

Original Air Date-29 October 1971

Season 1, Episode 4: High Price

Original Air Date-5 November 1971

Season 1, Episode 5: Catch as Can

Original Air Date-12 November 1971

Season 1, Episode 6: Salvage

Original Air Date-19 November 1971

Season 1, Episode 7: Passage to Pernambuco

Original Air Date-26 November 1971

Season 1, Episode 8: The Homecoming

Original Air Date-3 December 1971

Season 1, Episode 9: When My Ship Comes In

Original Air Date-10 December 1971

Season 1, Episode 10: A Very Important Passenger

Original Air Date-17 December 1971

Season 1, Episode 11: Mutiny

Original Air Date-24 December 1971

Season 1, Episode 12: Cry of the Blackbird

Original Air Date-7 January 1972

Season 1, Episode 13: Shadow of Doubt

Original Air Date-14 January 1972

Season 1, Episode 14: Blockade

Original Air Date-21 January 1972

Season 1, Episode 15: Winner Take All

Original Air Date-28 January 1972

Drama serial based on the Onedin Shipping line set in 19th century England. James Onedin marries Anne Webster in order to get his hands on a ship. However the marriage turns out to be one of true love. James is ruthless in his attempt to get a shipping line started in Liverpool of the 1860s.

Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: The Wind Blows Free

Original Air Date-15 October 1971

In Liverpool in 1860 sailor James Onedin,working for the hard-nosed shipping owner Callon,is desperate to gain a ship of his own and finally acquires the 'Charlotte Rhodes' from drunken old Captain Webster in exchange for marrying the captain's daughter,unglamorous but spirited Anne. He makes his mark when he beats Callon in a race to secure a contract with the Portuguese wine exporter Braganza. His brother Robert and wife Sarah run a chandler's shop,assisted by discontented and frivolous younger sister Elizabeth.

Season 1, Episode 2: Plain Salling

Original Air Date-22 October 1971

On the return trip from Portugal James teaches Anne the rudiments of navigation. This comes in useful when James and several other crew members become seriously ill,due to rotten meat provided by Robert and which Anne throws overboard. Despite superstitious views that a woman on board brings bad luck Anne works with the illiterate sailing master Captain Baines to read the charts and brings the ship safely home to Liverpool,where Robert is made to compensate the sick crew and Anne agrees to teach Baines literacy. Elizabeth is torn between two suitors,young sailor Daniel Fogarty and the dandified shipyard owner's son Albert Frazer.

Season 1, Episode 3: Other Points of the Compass

Original Air Date-29 October 1971

Elizabeth is engaged to Fogarty,who is soon to be made a ship's captain but she is still interested in Albert Frazer. Callon floods James with a load of Braganza's empty wine casks which he is obliged by contract to take but has no room for them. Albert comes to his rescue by offering to store the casks for him and James begins to see that Albert would be a far more profitable brother-in-law than Daniel.

Season 1, Episode 4: High Price

Original Air Date-5 November 1971

With more barrels than he has room for James needs a warehouse to store them and finds one owned by the widowed Mrs. Arkwright who wants six hundred and fifty pounds for it so that she can return to France and buy a house there. Callon attempts to gazump James but Mrs. Arkwright agrees to sell to James on condition that he takes her to France for free. A rag and bone dealer Ada Gamble is also using the warehouse but is persuaded to leave when it is discovered that she fences stolen property. Robert's wife Sarah gives birth and Anne and James move into the warehouse on the discovery that Webster has mortgaged his house.

Season 1, Episode 5: Catch as Can

Original Air Date-12 November 1971

James Onedin is in a battle with his former employer and main competitor, Mr. Callan, to keep what few clients he has. Callon has put the squeeze on Mr. Watson, who recently consigned a small shipment to Onedin, telling him they will refuse to carry his trade to India unless they get 100% of his business. Callan's son Edmund begins to set his eye on what few assets James has managed to acquire. When Mr. Baines fails to return from a visit to his sister, James knows it has to be Callan's handy work. With Mr. Fogarty away, Elizabeth is at her wits end and Anne thinks she knows what the problem is. Albert Frazer inherits a house and invites not only James and Anne but also Elizabeth, who is the prime reason for extending the invitation.

Season 1, Episode 6: Salvage

Original Air Date-19 November 1971

With James and Robert now aware of Elizabeth's condition, they insist that she reconcile with Mr. Fogarty and marry him without delay. Immediately after Fogarty's return from a sea voyage, they inform him of the situation and he agrees to marry her. Elizabeth has her own ideas however. James faces ruin when the Charlotte Rhodes is abandoned by her crew some six miles from shore due to weather conditions and a fire in the forward hold. Mr. Callon sends his son Edmund on their fastest ship to claim her for salvage. James is desperate - he didn't insure the vessel for this trip - and asks Albert Frazer if his steam-powered ship could get there first. No one is sure what will happen but off they set in what most sailors are calling a teapot.

Season 1, Episode 7: Passage to Pernambuco

Original Air Date-26 November 1971

With a beetle destroying Portuguses vineyards Senor Braganza asks James to import new vines from Brazil. He sets sail in the 'Pampero',a ship bought by Braganza,who is now his partner for a five year tenure. Worried by the presence of a bullying passenger Dom Vasco,James detours to Baltimore where he strikes a deal with a railroad boss but loses several crew when they decide to join the railroad gangs. He returns to Portugal with his vines having transferred Vasco to another ship.

Season 1, Episode 8: The Homecoming

Original Air Date-3 December 1971

Michael Adams,an old flame of Anne,visits and James takes him on his next voyage, to Cape Verde to collect coal. Anne travels with them. Michael explains that he has been an outlaw for four years following a death on board ship for which he was suspected of being the killer. George Bethell, a crew member,tells Michael that he is in the clear because the death was logged as being an accident. Albert is too taken up with his new scheme to design steam-ships for a living to listen to Elizabeth when she tries to explain that the baby she is carrying is Daniel's.

Season 1, Episode 9: When My Ship Comes In

Original Air Date-10 December 1971

A ship James chartered from Callon has been badly damaged but insurance under-writer Chubb will not pay out because it was carrying gunpowder and thus negates the insurance terms. After unsuccessfully trying to compromise Chubb with light lady Kate James steals back the 'Charlotte Rhodes' from Callon,who has confiscated it as surety. In revenge Callon confiscates Robert's shop,planning to build a dock on its site.

Season 1, Episode 10: A Very Important Passenger

Original Air Date-17 December 1971

Callon proposes Robert buy another shop from him but Albert points out this would put Robert in Callon's behest and finances another premises. James is charged to take a mysterious passenger to Italy,who turns out to be the revolutionary Garibaldi. Attempts are made by enemies posing as crew members to kill Garibaldi but he shoots them,using his new,six-shooter revolver and is safely delivered.

Season 1, Episode 11: Mutiny

Original Air Date-24 December 1971

It appears that a mutiny has occurred on a ship James chartered but the crew explain that there was no mutiny,the captain had gone mad and they were taking the ship over in order to act for the best. James discovers that Kirkwood is indeed mad,a religious zealot,claiming people are out to kill him. He eventually hangs himself after trying to sink the ship and James makes sure that the crew are all acquitted of any mutiny charges.

Season 1, Episode 12: Cry of the Blackbird

Original Air Date-7 January 1972

James has taken emigrants to Australia where he hopes to make enough money to buy off the Pampero by bringing home a cargo of wool,but the sheep-farmers have all left to join the gold rush. He agrees to ferry a load of 'lost souls' from Papua to Victoria for McPherson,a parson,but discovers the parson is actually a slave trader intent on taking the group to the West Indies.After the Papuans have set fire to the 'parson' James returns them to their homes.

Season 1, Episode 13: Shadow of Doubt

Original Air Date-14 January 1972

Robert lets slip to Albert about the paternity of Elizabeth's child and Callon appoints Daniel a marine supervisor.James is taking emigrants to Canada,including the Stirlings,relatives of Robert's wife Sarah,who,as family members of the Onedins,travel for free. On the voyage out the Stirlings are found to have smallpox and the husband dies. James falsifies the log,allowing the ship to carry on without having to face quarantine restrictions and loss of money. Anne is not pleased.

Season 1, Episode 14: Blockade

Original Air Date-21 January 1972

James is delivering a cargo to the Southern states of America but the Civil War is raging and the North are blockading ports. With him are Anne,who dislikes the idea of helping slave-owning states to profit,and Albert. A nervous pilot is not keen to run the blockade so James decides to run it himself. He is captured by Captain Ferguson,a Northern captain but fortunately for him Ferguson has a great enthusiasm for steam-ships and,impressed by Albert's plans,for a new steam vessel,the 'Golden Nugget',not only allows James to go about his business but defects to join Albert.

Season 1, Episode 15: Winner Take All

Original Air Date-28 January 1972

To finance the building of a new steam ship James floats a public company pounds worth of shares on the market. However,he is tricked by Callon,who,using other nominees to buy them for him,ends up as the majority share holder and virtual owner of the now depleted Onedin Line,as,to add to James' concerns,Baines,now made up to captain,has lost the 'Pampero' in a storm at Cape Horn. Anne reminds him that he still has the 'Charlote Rhodes'.

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