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The Onedin Line: Created by Cyril Abraham. With Peter Gilmore, Jessica Benton, Howard Lang, Mary Webster. James Onedin marries Anne Webster in order to get his hands on a ship.
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- Adventure, Drama, Romance
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- 1971-10-15
The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series that ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham . The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 [1] and covers the rise of a fictional shipping company, the Onedin Line, named after its owner captain James Onedin.
- 15 October 1971 –, 26 October 1980
- BBC One
- 91 (list of episodes)
- BBC
- A Long Way Home. 9/9 Max Van Der Rheede is imprisoned and James is free.
- Guilty - In All Innocence. 8/9 Charlotte visits her father in jail.
- Vengeance. 7/9 Captain Baines blames Onedin for Tom running away to join his crew.
- The Price Of Pride. 6/9 Captain Baines leaves the Onedin Line.
In Liverpool in 1860 sailor James Onedin, working for the hard-nosed shipping owner Callon, is desperate to gain a ship of his own and finally acquires the 'Charlotte Rhodes' from drunken old Captain Webster in exchange for marrying the captain's daughter, unglamorous but spirited Anne.
Uncharted Island. Baines and Onedin find an uncharted island, rich in guano, which they intend to mine without telling anybody. However, Matt Harvey learns about it and sets sail in a Frazer Line ship but fails to locate the island. Instead he returns with valuable whale-bone and claims that the guano was too acidic for use.
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The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin.
