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Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 11, 1984
The promise of a dazzling career at the Bar beckons Lewis Eliot to London; but his infatuation with the capricious Sheila Knight unsettles his plans for the future.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 11, 1984
The promise of a dazzling career at the Bar beckons Lewis Eliot to London; but his infatuation with the capricious Sheila Knight unsettles his plans for the future.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 18, 1984
His health restored, Lewis Eliot returns to London to resume his career at the Bar. He re-contacts Sheila Knight , but is shocked to learn she is in love with another man.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 25, 1984
Lewis Eliot leaves the bar and takes up a part-time post at Francis Getliffe 's Cambridge college. When his friend Roy Calvert is considered for a Fellowship, Eliot gains his first insight into the world of college politics.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Feb 1, 1984
A political scandal threatens the March family. Lewis Eliot 's marriage, meanwhile, comes under pressure from a different quarter.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Feb 8, 1984
The Master of Lewis Eliot 's Cambridge college lies dying. Behind the facade of civilised learning, 13 colleagues battle to choose his successor.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 15, 1984
As war looms, Lewis Eliot is drafted into Whitehall. Simultaneously he faces crises in the personal lives of his wife Sheila and his intimate friend Roy Calvert.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Feb 22, 1984
A wartime civil servant, Lewis Eliot is introduced to the vivacious Margaret Davidson. As their relationship develops he discovers that he is still haunted by the memory of his first wife.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Feb 29, 1984
Lewis Eliot is caught up in the race to produce the British atomic bomb. For the scientists at Barford, success is in sight - but it will not be achieved without risk.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1984
The moral implications of the Hiroshima bomb disturb the scientific community throughout the world. Lewis Eliot 's ambitious brother, Martin, seizes upon the divisions at Barford to further his own career.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1984
Lewis Eliot is reintroduced to Margaret Davidson , who is now married. He discovers that his feelings for her have not diminished in the years since their affair.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1984
At the outset of the Cold War, Lewis Eliot allies himself to the cause of nuclear disarmament and to the ambitions of a young and idealistic Tory minister, Roger Quaife.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1984
Roger Quaife 's political ambitions are jeopardised by a private scandal -and Lewis Eliot finds his own career is also placed at risk.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1984
Lewis Eliot has renounced his career in Whitehall and become a successful writer. The offer of a post in the new Labour government tempts him back to political life.