The Onedin Line - Season Four - 4-DVD Box Set ( The Onedin Line - Season 4 )

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

$33.99

Alternate Title: The Onedin Line - Season 4
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
492 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 4

Season 4, Episode 1: Loss of the Helen May

Original Air Date-25 April 1976

Season 4, Episode 2: A Cold Wind Blowing

Original Air Date-2 May 1976

Season 4, Episode 3: Not Wanted on Voyage

Original Air Date-9 May 1976

Season 4, Episode 4: Undercurrent

Original Air Date-16 May 1976

Season 4, Episode 5: Quarantine

Original Air Date-23 May 1976

Season 4, Episode 6: Uncharted Island

Original Air Date-30 May 1976

Season 4, Episode 7: A Clear Conscience

Original Air Date-6 June 1976

Season 4, Episode 8: Shipwreck

Original Air Date-13 June 1976

Season 4, Episode 9: The Gamble

Original Air Date-20 June 1976

Season 4, Episode 10: Month of the Albatross

Original Air Date-27 June 1976

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 4

Season 4, Episode 1: Loss of the Helen May

Original Air Date-25 April 1976

The 'Helen May is importing barrels of petroleum into Liverpool in thick fog. A barrel is leaking and the ship explodes when a seaman,holding a lantern,investigates. Baines believes more effort should have been made to look for survivors, Onedin insists there were none. One sailor,however,does survive,and gives evidence at the inquest. The ship was sailing too fast and the blame is attached to its dead captain. Elizabeth,meanwhile,learns that Albert has died in South America.

Season 4, Episode 2: A Cold Wind Blowing

Original Air Date-2 May 1976

Steam is now in the ascendancy and sail looks as if it is danger of becoming obsolete. James' main rival Briggs is investing heavily in steam-ships and Elizabeth urges Frazer to build some more for him. Briggs also buys the 'Anne Onedin' from James but James buys a fleet of six sailing ships from elderly Captain Fowey in the knowledge that a miners' strike is sending coal prices rocketing,giving sail the temporary advantage.

Season 4, Episode 3: Not Wanted on Voyage

Original Air Date-9 May 1976

Jack Frazer dies. He is angry and bitter to learn that his supposed grandchild was Fogarty's. Elizabeth becomes instrumental in running the Frazer line. She and James and Pierre Legrande,an old associate of Albert's travel out to South America in order to bring back his plans for refrigerated holds, allowing meat to stay fresh for days.

Season 4, Episode 4: Undercurrent

Original Air Date-16 May 1976

Elizabeth takes over as head of the Frazer Line. Several other owners aim to take advantage of her sex and try and persuade her to join them in a cartel but,putting into effect her know-how as a shop-keeper's daughter,she undercuts them all and starts to profit,as well as romancing Matt Harvey,one of the line captains. James is persuaded by Letty Gaunt,the nanny for his young daughter Charlotte,to spend more time with his child and the three of them have a picnic together.

Season 4, Episode 5: Quarantine

Original Air Date-23 May 1976

The 'Prince Edward', a Frazer Line ship is put in quarantine by order of strict new medical officer Dr. Darling after its captain,Corcoran,and his daughter fall ill. James is concerned that if he cannot move the ship he will be sued for breach of contact. Lucy dies but ultimately it is shown that she had the plague,caught from fleas on her pet guinea pig,and the Onedins are exonerated. The port is still closed but this is 'force majeure',beyond Onedin's control,so the contract is not broken after all.

Season 4, Episode 6: Uncharted Island

Original Air Date-30 May 1976

Baines and Onedin find an uncharted island,rich in guano,which they intend to mine without telling anybody. However,Matt Harvey learns about it and sets sail in a Frazer Line ship but fails to locate the island. Instead he returns with valuable whale-bone and claims that the guano was too acidic for use. Elizabeth believes she has got one over on her brother until she discovers that he already knew this fact.

Season 4, Episode 7: A Clear Conscience

Original Air Date-6 June 1976

Five pounds is stolen from the office of the Frazer Line and Uncle Percy Spendilow is accused,found guilty and sentenced to six months in prison. Elizabeth finds this hard to believe and so she sets a honey trap,leaving money lying around. It is taken by Drumond,a clerk,and,as a result, Uncle Percy is freed. However,he has an unpleasant surprise in store for Elizabeth.

Season 4, Episode 8: Shipwreck

Original Air Date-13 June 1976

Elizabeth and Matt are in Falmouth to buy a tug,the 'Alice',which she wants to turn into a ferry but James arrives with Robert,also interested in the boat,hopeful for a quick deal and departure. However the 'Charlotte Rhodes' gets stuck on a submerged wreck. Elizabeth buys the tug and offers to pull the 'Charlotte Rhodes' clear but,as James let the insurance lapse,he would be unable to claim the expense and finally the ship is floated off,thanks to the underwater skills of its carpenter.Matt,however, is annoyed that again Onedin places cost-cutting over the risk to human life.

Season 4, Episode 9: The Gamble

Original Air Date-20 June 1976

James is anxious to buy the Salt Line, a fleet of six ships which seem to belong to a foppish dandy,Sinclair, who does nothing with them. In fact they are owned by his aunt,captain's widow Mrs. Salt,now old and bed-ridden but reluctant to sell as she has promised them to her nephew. James discovers that Sinclair has huge gambling debts,which he pays off in return for being given the ships. He and Sinclair go to see Mrs. Salt for her approval but she has died in her sleep and so James takes over the Salt Line,putting Captain Baines in charge of it.

Season 4, Episode 10: Month of the Albatross

Original Air Date-27 June 1976

Sarah is suspicious when Robert visits mystery woman Beatie Mays,though it turns out he is only helping her regain possession of her hat shop and is not being unfaithful. Her trust in him gives him the self-confidence which he feels the rest of his family undermine. Meanwhile on a voyage home from Brazil, Matt takes over captaincy when Baines is injured and,when the ship is becalmed,the crew put it down to the presence of an albatross. However they return to Liverpool in time for Christmas. Matt accepts a partnership with the Frazer Line but Captain Baines is outraged that James has evicted his niece and her children to make way for his expansion plans and quits the Onedin Line.

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