Series 1

1. Emma

1974-09-29 · 50m

Emma agrees to a pretend engagement with a young Earl in order to protect him from the horde of eligible young women besieging him.

2. Flora

1974-10-06 · 50m

Flora Saunt is a beautiful but poor orphan whose only asset is her face, which she uses to secure a marriage to the wealthy but unintelligent Lord Iffield, who doesn't realise she is nearly blind and needs thick, disfiguring spectacles.

3. Grace

1974-10-13 · 50m

Mr Prodmore owns the mortgage to the Yule family estate. He will forgive the vast debt if Yule will marry his daughter. The enchanting Grace has other ideas.

4. Mary and Louise

1974-10-20 · 50m

Louisa Bridgenorth commissions a portrait of the ideal man. James Mallory turns her down, but knows just the artist, Mary Tredick.

5. Adela

1974-10-27 · 50m

Adela, who has taken on the role of running the family since her mother's death, must work to 'save' her father from remarriage and her brother from a scheming music hall artiste.

6. Catherine

1974-11-03 · 50m

A wealthy doctor is suspicious of a handsome man courting Catherine, his plain daughter.

7. Bessie

1974-11-10 · 50m

Bessie Alden and Lord Lambeth meet in Newport and both seem smitten. Everyone assumes that when Bessie visits London the next spring, she's set on marriage.