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Poldark

6.9(17)
First Aired:October 5, 1975
Seasons:2 seasons
Episodes:29
Status:Ended

Poldark is a television drama based on Winston Graham's novels of the same title. It was first transmitted on BBC Two across two seasons between 1975 and 1977. The adaptation covered all seven novels (of the eventual twelve) published up to the time. In late 18th-century Cornwall, Ross Poldark loses his fiancée, well-bred beauty Elizabeth, to his cousin Francis. He ends up marrying his servant, Demelza Carne, but his passion for Elizabeth simmers on for years. Meanwhile, he strives to make his derelict copper mines a success. Life is hard, smuggling is rife, and Ross finds himself taking the side of the underclass against the ruthless behaviour of his enemies, the greedy Warleggan clan.

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Seasons & Episodes

E1Episode 1

51m5.0

Oct 5, 1975

In 1783, Ross Poldark returns from the American wars to his native Cornwall to find his home in shambles and his betrothed Elizabeth engaged to another.

E2Episode 2

50m5.0

Oct 12, 1975

Ross determines to put Nampara back on track and get his mine Wheal Leisure running again. Ross decides to take young Demelza Carne into his house as a servant.

E3Episode 3

51m5.0

Oct 19, 1975

Demelza has taken over running Nampara; Elizabeth and Francis now married have had a child; Ross has to defend Jim Carter in court but to no avail as he is sent to prison.

E4Episode 4

52m5.0

Oct 26, 1975

After another infidelity from Francis, Elizabeth decides to leave Francis for Ross after his father's death — but Demelza's pregnancy complicates everything.

E5Episode 5

52m5.0

Nov 2, 1975

Ross and Demelza, now married, celebrate the birth of their daughter, Julia. A travelling troupe of performers stages a play at Nampara, and Mark Daniel falls for a young actress named Keren.

E6Episode 6

52m5.0

Nov 9, 1975

When Jim Carter becomes seriously ill in prison, Ross worries that he'll die before completing his sentence.

E7Episode 7

51m5.0

Nov 16, 1975

Young Geoffrey Charles is stricken with a serious illness; when Francis also falls ill, Demelza assists Elizabeth in caring for him.

E8Episode 8

52m5.0

Nov 23, 1975

Mark Daniel learns of Keren's affair with Dwight Enys; Ross helps Mark avoid capture by the authorities.

E9Episode 9

52m5.0

Nov 30, 1975

After Ross is released on bail on charges of looting a wrecked ship, the Warleggans stubborn witnesses in order to have him legally executed.

E10Episode 10

52m5.0

Dec 7, 1975

Francis' botched suicide attempt leaves him in deep melancholia as the Warleggans' parade of suborned witnesses darkens Ross' prospects for acquittal.

E11Episode 11

51m5.0

Dec 14, 1975

Ross rehires Jud, reestablishes his friendship with Francis, and becomes involved with smugglers in the hope of raising money to exploit a new vein.

E12Episode 12

49m5.0

Dec 21, 1975

Warleggan's minions beat Jud to death in revenge for his changing his testimony. Francis and Ross plan to open Wheal Grace using Warleggan money.

E13Episode 13

52m5.0

Dec 28, 1975

After the birth of Ross and Demelza's son, Francis accidentally drowns in Wheal Grace after supposedly discovering a new vein of precious copper.

E14Episode 14

51m5.0

Jan 4, 1976

Ross tries to locate Mark Daniel in hopes that he will remember the location of the copper vein he found while hiding in Wheal Grace.

E15Episode 15

52m5.0

Jan 11, 1976

Ross's hopes for a new vein of copper are shattered, and his distress amplifies when he finds out Elizabith is to wed Warleggan, resulting in the break of their vows.

E16Episode 16

51m5.0

Jan 18, 1976

Warleggan evicts hundreds of tenant families in his efforts to exert power, and Ross discovers a valuable vein of tin in his depleted copper mine, Wheal Grace.

E1Episode 17

52m5.0

Sep 11, 1977

Ross is discharged for medical reasons and returns home to find Warleggan occupying the house of his elderly aunt and expecting his first child by Elizabeth.

E2Episode 18

53m5.0

Sep 18, 1977

Elizabeth's son Geoffrey facilitates a romance between Drake Carne and Morwenna while Ross learns that Dwight is a POW in France.

E3Episode 19

52m5.0

Sep 25, 1977

Morwenna's love for Drake causes her to reject an arranged marriage with a pompous minister, and Drake bedevils George by seeding his pond with toads.

E4Episode 20

53m5.0

Oct 2, 1977

Warleggan presses trumped-up charges against Drake in revenge for his romance with Rowenna, and Ross plans a daring rescue of Dwight from a French prison.

E5Episode 21

53m5.0

Oct 9, 1977

Ross and his men successfully return Dwight from France, but Drake is severely wounded, and Watleggan's son develops a serious case of the rickets.

E6Episode 22

52m5.0

Oct 16, 1977

Whitworth becomes sexually frustrated when Behanna asks him to abstain for his wife's health, and Warleggan stands for Parliament after Ross declines the opportunity.

E7Episode 23

52m5.0

Oct 23, 1977

George, newly elected to Parliament, has become obsessed over Valentine's as Whitworth takes on his teenage sister-in-law as mistress.

E8Episode 24

52m5.0

Oct 30, 1977

At George Warleggan's behest, Sid Rouse categorically harasses Drake and his smithy. Meanwhile, Rowella announces to a horrified Rev. Whitworth that she is with child.

E9Episode 25

53m5.0

Nov 6, 1977

Sam consents to wrestle Sid Rouse at the fair in order to get Emma back to church while Warleggan agrees to stop harassing Drake in order to save his marriage.

E10Episode 26

52m5.0

Nov 13, 1977

Caroline goes to London following her child's death, Whitworth reestablishes relations with money, and Ross secretly visits Elizabeth during a Warleggan party.

E11Episode 27

52m5.0

Nov 20, 1977

Whitworth attempts to break off his ongoing affair with Rowella but is seduced into continuing when Solway becomes aware he's being cuckolded.

E12Episode 28

53m5.0

Nov 27, 1977

Warleggan wagers Adderly that he won't be able to seduce Demelza, and when he fails at that, he goads Ross into challenging him to a duel.

E13Episode 29

56m5.0

Dec 4, 1977

Warleggan tries to have Ross arrested after the duel and Elizabeth consults with a doctor to have her baby prematurely to allay George's suspicions.

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Poldark is a television drama based on Winston Graham's novels of the same title. It was first transmitted on BBC Two across two seasons between 1975 and 1977. The adaptation covered all seven novels (of the eventual twelve) published up to the time. In late 18th-century Cornwall, Ross Poldark loses his fiancée, well-bred beauty Elizabeth, to his cousin Francis. He ends up marrying his servant, Demelza Carne, but his passion for Elizabeth simmers on for years. Meanwhile, he strives to make his derelict copper mines a success. Life is hard, smuggling is rife, and Ross finds himself taking the side of the underclass against the ruthless behaviour of his enemies, the greedy Warleggan clan.

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