Series 1

1974-09-29 · 50m

Emma agrees to a pretend engagement with a young Earl in order to protect him from the horde of eligible young women besieging him.

1974-10-06 · 50m

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.

1974-10-13 · 50m

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.

1974-10-20 · 50m

Louisa Bridgenorth commissions a portrait of the ideal man. James Mallory turns her down, but knows just the artist, Mary Tredick.

1974-10-27 · 50m

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.

1974-11-03 · 50m

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

1974-11-10 · 50m

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.