Bramwell (Complete Series 1-4) - 8-DVD Box Set ( Bramwell - Complete Series One to Four )

Bramwell (Complete Series 1-4) - 8-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$44.99

Alternate Title: Bramwell - Complete Series One to Four
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
1466 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

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

Movie filmed in 1995 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
David Tucker
Paul Unwin

Written By:
Lucy Gannon
Harriet Davison

Actors:
Ruth Sheen ..... Nurse Carr / ... (27 episodes, 1995-1998)
Jemma Redgrave ..... Eleanor Bramwell / ... (26 episodes, 1995-1998)
David Calder ..... Robert Bramwell / ... (24 episodes, 1995-1997)
Kevin McMonagle ..... Joe Marsham / ... (24 episodes, 1995-1998)
Keeley Gainey ..... Kate (21 episodes, 1995-1997)
Cliff Parisi ..... Daniel Bentley (11 episodes, 1995-1996)
Ben Brazier ..... Sidney Bentley / ... (9 episodes, 1996-1997)
Andrew Connolly ..... Dr. Finn O'Neill / ... (8 episodes, 1996-1997)
Maureen Beattie ..... Mrs. Alice Costigan / ... (7 episodes, 1997)
Michele Dotrice ..... Lady Cora Peters (5 episodes, 1995)
Susan Field ..... Eel Seller / ... (3 episodes, 1996-1998)
Jenny Agutter ..... Mrs. Bruce (2 episodes, 1998)
David Bark-Jones ..... Maj. Guy Quarrie (2 episodes, 1998)
Eamon Boland ..... Sgt. Reid (2 episodes, 1998)
Colin Welland ..... Mr. Barclay (2 episodes, 1998)
Robert Hardy ..... Sir Herbert Hamilton (2 episodes, 1995)
David Shelley ..... Caslow (2 episodes, 1995)
Robert Glenister ..... Charles Sheldon (2 episodes, 1996-1998)
Joanna David ..... Elizabeth Quail / ... (2 episodes, 1996-1997)
Kate Morgan ..... Mrs. Marsham / ... (2 episodes, 1996-1997)
Jonathan Bailey ..... William Kilshaw (2 episodes, 1997-1998)
Paloma Baeza ..... Emmaline / ... (2 episodes, 1997)
Annie Cooper ..... Jane (2 episodes, 1998)
Louise Germaine ..... Rose (2 episodes, 1998)
Cheryl Hall ..... Vonnie (2 episodes, 1998)
Ellie Kirk ..... Dora (2 episodes, 1998)
Stash Kirkbride ..... Neville (unknown episodes)
Iain Mitchell ..... Mr. Benn (unknown episodes)

Synopsis:

This lavish period drama tells the story of Eleanor Bramwell (Jemma Redgrave), a pioneering female doctor in the late nineteenth century, and the struggles she has with her friends, her colleagues and society. Determined to take the medical profession out of the dark ages, her strongly held opinions often draw her into conflict with the chief surgeon, a man keener on tradition than he is on progress .Also starring David Calder and Robert Hardy. This box set contains all 4 series, in 27 stunning episodes over 8 discs. Series 1 This award-winning series follows the fortunes of Eleanor Bramwell (Jemma Redgrave) who sets her heart and her sights on becoming a leading surgeon - an ambition unheard of for women in Victorian England. Her father Robert (David Calder) would like Eleanor to join him in his respectable private practice but his daughter has plans of her own which take her from the decadent drawing rooms of elite Victorian society to the shocking deprivation of the slums in the East End of London. Eleanor's forward thinking makes her enemies amongst the medical establishment. But her energy and commitment also win her friends. As Eleanor consolidates her professional standing in the hostile medical world, in her private life, she becomes romantically involved with a charismatic Irish physician, a man considered a scheming opportunist by her father. Bramwell is based on fact, and produced with the greatest attention to detail. Eleanor Bramwell is modelled on real doctors, and the stories are drawn from documented cases in the 1890s. The result is a series in the finest tradition of period drama. Bramwell Series 2 A second series of the late Victorian medical drama. With her private practice failing, Eleanor faces tough choices and difficult times ahead, including the surprise arrival of a long-lost relative, the burgeoning of love and an outbreak of the dreaded cholera. Bramwell Series 3 The third installament of the beautiful period drama, with bittersweet stories set in London. Will Eleanor find true love and marraiage? Bramwell Series 4 The final series of Bramwell, with two feature-length episodes uncovering the truths and fictions in Eleanor Bramwell's (Jemma Redgrave) life as she faces up to her true feelings for more than one man and the prospect of an unacceptable pregnancy. Also starring Jenny Agutter and Timothy West.

In 1895, women were not expected to work - or even know about - medicine. Women were expected to work as house-wives, mothers, teachers and nurses. One women was determined to change that. Eleanor Bramwell works under Sir Herbert Hamilton's supervision. She isn't happy. After he stupidly looses a perfectly healthy young mother, Eleanor decides it is time to make her mark in medical history. Mocked by fellow medical students and questioned by her father, Doctor Robert Bramwell, Eleanor is soon given a renovated building - by donation of the kind Lady Cora Peters - and begins her own infirmary - The Thrift. But with all odds against her, will she survive? Will she make her dream come true? Will her colleagues trust her?

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Episode #1.1
Original Air Date-22 May 1995
Eleanor Bramwell is determined to be a doctor, in spite of the unfriendly attitudes of universally male doctors. When visiting friend Victoria insists Eleanor examine her, she diagnoses syphilis and tells Victoria, infuriating her husband Lord Edward. Sir Herbert diagnoses hysteria and plans an ovariectomy, an operation with a horrifying mortality rate.
Season 1, Episode 2: Episode #1.2
Original Air Date-29 May 1995
Eleanor and Nurse Carr set up the infirmary funded by Lady Peters. Eleanor operates for a strangulated hernia on a man who threatened her. Dr. Bramwell's lady friend Peggy Heart collapses on stage.
Season 1, Episode 3: Episode #1.3
Original Air Date-5 June 1995
Eleanor, her father, and the clinic staff try to save a woman in labor but are astonished when they discover her husband is black. Dr. Bramwell chews out Eleanor for the poor equipment and then gives her some of his own scalpels. Eleanor faces the dilemma of what to do with the motherless black baby.
Season 1, Episode 4: Episode #1.4
Original Air Date-12 June 1995
Neurologist Dr. Hunter volunteers to help at the Thrift and actually shows up. He seems taken with Eleanor and she enjoys his company, but his ulterior motives threaten Eleanor's peace of mind. Nurse Carr is smitten with an 8-year-old thief.
Season 1, Episode 5: Episode #1.5
Original Air Date-19 June 1995
Oswald Grimes forces Dr. Bramwell to treat him with electricity. Eleanor takes a tubercular patient to his family's posh home, although he claims his legal wife is in love with his brother. The family commits him to a brutal asylum.
Season 1, Episode 6: Episode #1.6
Original Air Date-26 June 1995
Marsham thinks injured Wilf has a broken neck and Lady Peters arranges for Sir Herbert to Xray him. Sir Herbert embarrasses Eleanor and uses Wilf to teach his students, resulting in serious Xray burns. Lady Peters tries to have the Thrift work with Sir Herbert's East London Hospital, but Eleanor realizes Sir Herbert wants to take it over. Lady Peters collapses with what Sir Herbert diagnoses as spastic colon but Eleanor and Dr. Bramwell are convinced she has appendicitis.
Season 1, Episode 7: Episode #1.7
Original Air Date-3 July 1995
Dr. Bramwell considers Major Hyde an ideal suitor for Eleanor, and is delighted when he proposes. Bentley becomes interested in Kate. The doctors don't know whether Stebbings' unpleasant behavior is normal or signifies brain damage. Stebbings attacks Eleanor, and Dr. Bramwell and Major Hyde want to wean Eleanor away from the Thrift.
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Episode #2.1
Original Air Date-15 April 1996
Eleanor and her father are involved in a subway accident, and Eleanor must amputate Peter Mills' crushed leg in order to save his life. Caring for him afterward in the infirmary, he seems to be falling for her while his brothers interfere with ill people coming for medical care. But when the thugs openly take over the Thrift, neither Bramwell can stand up to them.
Season 2, Episode 2: Episode #2.2
Original Air Date-22 April 1996
Urged by her father, Eleanor applies for a clinical assistant position at St. Jude's Hospital. Dr. O'Neill opposes her hiring until she demonstrates her knowledge and willingness to learn. Eleanor cares for Lucy, a 12-year-old pregnant prostitute who wants an abortion. Dr. O'Neill offers Eleanor a job as his registrar. But when Dr. O'Neill sends away an injured and bleeding Lucy, Eleanor is torn between the desire to work with a dedicated scientist and her need to care for the poor.
Season 2, Episode 3: Episode #2.3
Original Air Date-29 April 1996
Sir William proposes his friend Robert for membership in the Royal College of Physicians. Robert's sister Emily reappears after running off with a married man 20 years earlier and stealing their mother's jewels and money. Mr. Marsham's little girl Molly is treated at the Thrift for a broken leg and then develops diphtheria.
Season 2, Episode 4: Episode #2.4
Original Air Date-6 May 1996
Eleanor and Robert treat several cases of cholera in the Thrift, and Eleanor has to report them to Robert's old adversary (and current Medical Officer) Finn O'Neill. O'Neill treats the patients with a new formula of his own, which may be lifesaving - or deadly.
Season 2, Episode 5: Episode #2.5
Original Air Date-13 May 1996
Eleanor offers to help visiting lecturer Guy le Saux find orphaned children to start new lines in Canada. His wife Kathleen suffers from unexplained bruises, but insists Guy is a genius.
Season 2, Episode 6: Episode #2.6
Original Air Date-20 May 1996
Eleanor's old nanny comes to visit. Eleanor and Joe rescue a carnival attraction, a young girl with 'the world's largest brain' - an enormous cyst deforming her head. Eleanor and Joe disagree about whether to remove the cyst, a cosmetic procedure. When Eleanor talks Robert into operating, they find something unexpected. Meanwhile, Nanny is irritating Kate and Nurse Carr.
Season 2, Episode 7: Episode #2.7
Original Air Date-27 May 1996
A friend of Marsham's brings an injured woman to the Thrift, but Eleanor is surprised to discover the patient is really a man, and Marsham is convinced he is a male prostitute, and a fellow patient attacks him. Meanwhile, Robert's friend Mrs. Quayle is enamored of evangelist Sullivan and is convinced Robert needs saving.
Season 2, Episode 8: Episode #2.8
Original Air Date-3 June 1996
Eleanor meets Finn O'Neil at a seaside resort, but Robert hears of Eleanor's 'cousin' Finn. Bitterly disappointed, Robert tells Eleanor there is nothing of her mother left in her, and Eleanor moves out. Sidney insults Nurse Carr and Eleanor fires him. Finn proposes to Eleanor, but confesses he is being named as co-respondent in a divorce trial and he plans to take a position in Chicago until the trial is over. Robert invites Eleanor to move back so she can be married from her own home.
Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: Episode #3.1
Original Air Date-21 April 1997
A brewery worker brings a 15-year-old co-worker in, both scalded. Finn shows up to spend only one night in London before a trip to France, and Robert explains to Eleanor why he can't stay at their house.
Season 3, Episode 2: Episode #3.2
Original Air Date-28 April 1997
Robert enjoys a weekend of shooting at Mrs. Costigan's country estate, although he recognizes another guest, noted physician Aubrey Savier, as an entrenched rival for Mrs. Costigan's affections. Joe Marsham considers a new position. Mrs. Costigan's infant nephew becomes ill, and she refuses Robert's recommendation of surgery. Instead, she insists on calling in Dr. Savier, who says inflation will be adequate, which Robert considers too dangerous.
Season 3, Episode 3: Episode #3.3
Original Air Date-12 May 1997
Eleanor tries desperately to replace Mr. Marsham. Kate shows her new boyfriend the Bramwells' house. Mrs. Marsham is diagnosed with advanced breast cancer.
Season 3, Episode 4: Episode #3.4
Original Air Date-19 May 1997
An abusive husband sends his wife to the Thrift yet again. Finn returns with news that breaks Eleanor's heart. The Thrift hosts a Jubilee party. When the beaten wife takes action to protect herself, she must run away to prevent her arrest. Eleanor confronts Emmaline O'Neill at the Jubilee Ball.
Season 3, Episode 5: Episode #3.5
Original Air Date-2 June 1997
Season 3, Episode 6: Episode #3.6
Original Air Date-9 June 1997
Season 3, Episode 7: Episode #3.7
Original Air Date-16 June 1997
Season 3, Episode 8: Episode #3.8
Original Air Date-23 June 1997
Season 3, Episode 9: Episode #3.9
Original Air Date-30 June 1997
Season 3, Episode 10: Episode #3.10
Original Air Date-7 July 1997
Season 4
Season 4, Episode 1: Our Brave Boys
Original Air Date-15 June 1998
Eleanor Bramwell is adjusting to life on her own after her father's wedding. She is engaged to Dr. Marsham, but still unsure whether this is the right thing to do. She meets Major Quarrie when she is asked to examine new army recruits enlisting to fight the Boer war in Africa. After a fight with Joe Marsham she seduces the Major....
Season 4, Episode 2: Loose Women
Original Air Date-18 June 1998
A brothel fire causes dark secrets to be revealed and the relationships between Eleanor, Joe and Major Quarrie to be finally resolved.

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