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Episode 1
Emma
1974-09-29
ORYVE presentation
Affairs of the Heart
7.01974Ended2 seasons
Drama
Anthology series of thirteen one-hour love stories based on the short stories of Henry James.
ORYVE presentation
Anthology series of thirteen one-hour love stories based on the short stories of Henry James.
Emma agrees to a pretend engagement with a young Earl in order to protect him from the horde of eligible young women besieging him.
Episode 2
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.
Episode 3
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.
Episode 4
Louisa Bridgenorth commissions a portrait of the ideal man. James Mallory turns her down, but knows just the artist, Mary Tredick.
Episode 5
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.
Episode 6
A wealthy doctor is suspicious of a handsome man courting Catherine, his plain daughter.
Episode 7
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.
