Series 1

1976-09-03 · 55m

A group of con artists posing as spiritualists go head to head with a real one.

1976-09-10 · 55m

The story of Catherine 'Skittles' Walters, a notorious Victorian courtesan.

1976-09-17 · 55m

Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.

1976-09-24 · 55m

Authors Charlotte Brontë and William Makepeace Thackeray attend the same dinner party when the hostess's husband suddenly arrives and wants his wife to come back to him.

1976-10-01 · 55m

Scholar and photographer Arthur Munby orchestrates a study of working-class women, and secretly marries Hannah Cullwick, who continues to pose as his servant.

1976-10-08 · 55m

An attempt to publish a pamphlet advocating birth control results in a notorious prosecution for obscenity.

1976-10-10 · 55m

When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion called the Abode of Love.