Set it the early 19th century linen weaver Silas Marner is driven from his religious community after he is falsely accused of theft his fortune is then stolen and Silas if left lonely and poor. An abandoned baby gives a chance to be happy again.
The High Life: Series 1
Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home: When Judith Dunbar is sent to boarding school she makes friends with the wild and carefree Loveday Carey-Lewis. Loveday introduces Judith to her wealthy and glamorous family and their glorious ancestral home of Nancherrow. The next few years are glorious joyful halcyon days of passion fun and romance as the friends remain blissfully unaware of the spectre of war which is about to overshadow their lives... Nancherrow: Joanna Lumley
When Judith Dunbar is sent to boarding school she makes friends with the wild and carefree Loveday Carey-Lewis. Loveday introduces Judith to her wealthy and glamorous family and their glorious ancestral home of Nancherrow. The next few years are glorious joyful halcyon days of passion fun and romance as the friends remain blissfully unaware of the spectre of war which is about to overshadow their lives...
All six episodes plus the pilot of the previously unreleased camp comedy concerning the crackpot crew of a charter jet from Scotia Airways... Comic Asides (Pilot Episode): Frustrated by their daily grind air steward Sebastian longs for glamour while his colleague Steve longs for a girlfriend. Feart: Steve and Sebastian decide that the time has come to find an escape route out of the Air Scotia rut. Birl: As standards fall the company orders its employees to attend a weekend of intensive retraining. Steve finds love Shona finds herself and Sebastian finds out a secret. Winch: Sebastian returns from his Florida holiday to discover something has definitely happened between Steve and Shona. Captain Duff meanwhile is as confused as ever. Choob: Much to Steve and Sebastian's irritation Shona lands the job of presenting Air Scotia's in-flight video. Dug: Sebastian hits on a scheme to find fame fortune and females for Steve. Dunk: The crew become embroiled in a small business espionage plot.
Ten year old Millie is taken in by 'Raggie Aggie' after her mother dies in a Newcastle brothel. Aggie soon has to hide Millie in a convent after the brothel owner turns his attentions to Millie. Years later and a beautiful young woman she returns to her Aunt but after a desolate relationship she is abducted into the same brothel in which her mother died...
Two professional motorcycle racers (a cossetted professional and a hotheaded privateer) competing in the world motorcycle championships find themselves at odds in a more personal type of competition: they both love the same woman...
Silas Marner, a member of a strict religious community, is wrongly accused of theft and has no choice but to move to a faraway village. For 15 years he lives alone, hoarding the money he makes from his weaving and gaining a reputation as a recluse, a miser and perhaps even a witch. Marner's life changes dramatically one Christmas season, when his gold is stolen and a mysterious woman dies in the woods outside his cottage. She leaves behind a child that Marner, to the surprise of the other villagers, takes into his home to raise as his daughter. The arrival of the infant, who he names Eppie after his mother, transforms Marner. His bitterness evaporates, he no longer cares about his lost money, and he commits himself completely to his adopted child, who grows up into a loving and beautiful daughter. But Marner's happiness may be threatened when Eppie's real father wants to claim Eppie as his own. Ben Kingsley gives a subtle and moving performance as the simple weaver, and a strong cast gives him ample support in this 1985 BBC adaptation of George Eliot's novel. Silas Marner is not particularly complex--it's certainly a more modest undertaking than Eliot's most famous novel, Middlemarch--but this sentimental Victorian tale, filled with historical detail, potential tragedy, heartless villains and the redeeming power of childhood, makes for a very satisfying film. --Simon Leake, Amazon.com
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