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Love in a Cold Climate

  • 1980
  • Ended
  • Drama
  • ~1h / ep
  • 1 season
  • 6.8/10

The unconventional lives and loves of the family of Lord Alconleigh, dominated by the eccentric, irascible Uncle Matthew. The story encompasses the economic and political crises of the Thirties and the upheavals of the Second World War.

Latest: Miniseries · 1980

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  1. E1. Child Hunt

    Oct 29, 1980 · 60m

    We meet the Radlett family engaged in one of its happiest pursuits - Lord Alconleigh hunts his daughters with bloodhounds.

  2. E2. Coming Out

    Nov 5, 1980 · 60m

    The Radlett girls (with cousin Fanny and friend Polly) begin to take their first steps into Society and in pursuit of Love. Of them all, only Lady Polly seems to have no interest in the latter.

  3. E3. Rings and Things

    Nov 12, 1980 · 60m

    Engagements to be married come about for good and bad reasons - and some are more approved of than others.

  4. E4. The Merry Widower

    Nov 19, 1980 · 60m

    We are reminded that it is not only the younger generation which has amorous ambitions. Lady Polly finally chooses her mate, to the astonishment of the fashionable world and the horrified disbelief of her mother.

  5. E5. Heir Apparent

    Nov 26, 1980 · 60m

    Lord Montdore's heir, Cedric Hampton, who is a distant cousin in Canada, is feared to be an obscure redneck. But truth can be stranger than fiction.

  6. E6. Foreigners Are Fiends

    Dec 3, 1980 · 60m

    Lord Alconleigh's fondest memories of youth are of slaughtering Germans with an entrenching tool in the course of hand-to-hand warfare, and he has no greater fondness for foreigners of other nations. Thus it is that he lacks enthusiasm for welcoming the non-English into the heart of his own family...

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