When the Boat Comes In

1. E1. Back To Dear Old Blighty

   Feb 17, 1981

2. E2. A Gift From Heaven

   Feb 24, 1981

3. E3. A Medal For The Argentine

   Mar 3, 1977

4. E4. Flies & Spiders

   Mar 10, 1981 · 50m

   Smuggler Doughty introduces Jack to his supplier, German Captain Bauer, who offers Jack work guarding an air-strip in South America against local tribes. However, on learning that Bauer wants the locals killed for the oil on their land, Jack refuses. Nonetheless, he buys a warehouse full of fire-damaged, bankrupt goods from Bauer, which he and Sarah sell in Gallowshield market. Jack's able to repay Matt's debt and retain a handsome profit, though he's less fortunate in love when Margaret, for whom he has fallen, returns to London to get married.

5. E5. Oh, My Charming Billy Boy

   Mar 17, 1981 · 50m

   Jack is visited by former schoolmate, teacher Sid Meek, who is in touch with Bill Pierce, Matt's nephew, now a brilliant law student at Oxford and in financial straits. Sid, secretly in love with Bill, asks Jack to investigate which takes him to Oxford where he meets Bill at a charity ball hosted by Labour philanthropist Violet Laurence, who occasionally pays Bill for 'favours'. Bill, heavily in debt, considers dropping out of his course to take manual work with his girlfriend's father but Jack loans him the money, attracting the attention of Mrs Laurence's niece Imogen Lorrimer, visiting from London.

6. E6. Friends, Romans, Countrymen

   Mar 24, 1981 · 50m

   Jack has been in London for three years with Imogen, but, despite still having feelings for him, she leaves to avoid scandal as her aunt is a standing Labour member for Gallowshield. The Tyneside hunger marchers arrive in town as Jack, tipped off that there is North Sea oil, buys cheap land to sell to the interested company. At a toga party given by Mrs Laurence for the hunger marchers, Jack encounters Jessie, still married to Ashton and with three children, but seeing upper-class socialist Robin Cunningham. She opposes his land deal but Jack buys her silence by threatening to tell Ashton about Robin. Sarah visits, pleased to be part of the deal.

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