The Onedin Line – Series 1 (Part 1) Peter Gilmore 2003 DVD Top-quality

The first episodes of the first series of the BBC’s classic series of 19th century love and passion on the high seas. Ship’s captain James Onedin has ambitions to one day run his own shipping line. He tries to gain the financial backing of his brother, Robert. Meanwhile, their sister Elizabeth must choose between her fianc Daniel and the doting shipbuilder’s son, Mr Fraser. When the schooner Charlotte Rhodes comes up for auction, her owner, Ann Webster, makes James an offer of a partnership. Elizabeth refuses to marry Daniel Fogarty, by whom she is pregnant, preferring Albert Frazer. James has the opportunity to expand the Onedin Line when his Portuguese patron decides to buy a new ship, but begins to neglect his wife, Ann.