Love in a Cold Climate - Miniseries
1 - Child Hunt
Air Date: October 29, 1980
We meet the Radlett family engaged in one of its happiest pursuits - Lord Alconleigh hunts his daughters with bloodhounds.
2 - Coming Out
Air Date: November 5, 1980
The Radlett girls (with cousin Fanny and friend Polly) begin to take their first steps into Society and in pursuit of Love. Of them all, only Lady Polly seems to have no interest in the latter.
3 - Rings and Things
Air Date: November 12, 1980
Engagements to be married come about for good and bad reasons - and some are more approved of than others.
4 - The Merry Widower
Air Date: November 19, 1980
We are reminded that it is not only the younger generation which has amorous ambitions. Lady Polly finally chooses her mate, to the astonishment of the fashionable world and the horrified disbelief of her mother.
5 - Heir Apparent
Air Date: November 26, 1980
Lord Montdore's heir, Cedric Hampton, who is a distant cousin in Canada, is feared to be an obscure redneck. But truth can be stranger than fiction.
6 - Foreigners Are Fiends
Air Date: December 3, 1980
Lord Alconleigh's fondest memories of youth are of slaughtering Germans with an entrenching tool in the course of hand-to-hand warfare, and he has no greater fondness for foreigners of other nations. Thus it is that he lacks enthusiasm for welcoming the non-English into the heart of his own family...
7 - Monsieur Le Duc
Air Date: December 10, 1980
Linda Radlett, after abandoning first her husband and child, next her Communist lover, Christian, falls in love for the last time - with a French duke whom she meets while in tears and sitting on a suitcase in a Paris railway station.
8 - In Love and War
Air Date: December 17, 1980
With the coming of War, the Radlett daughters have re-assembled in the family home, where there is a surprising arrival from overseas. The series ends in deaths - one of them unexpected.