Love in a Cold Climate

1h

Drama

The unconventional lives and loves of the family of Lord Alconleigh, dominated by the eccentric, irascible Uncle Matthew. The story encompasses the economic and political crises of the Thirties and the upheavals of the Second World War.

Episodes

Cast

Child Hunt

1. Child Hunt

1h

29th Oct 1980

We meet the Radlett family engaged in one of its happiest pursuits - Lord Alconleigh hunts his daughters with bloodhounds.

Coming Out

2. Coming Out

1h

5th Nov 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.

Rings and Things

3. Rings and Things

1h

12th Nov 1980

Engagements to be married come about for good and bad reasons - and some are more approved of than others.

The Merry Widower

4. The Merry Widower

1h

19th Nov 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.

Heir Apparent

5. Heir Apparent

1h

26th Nov 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.

Foreigners Are Fiends

6. Foreigners Are Fiends

1h

3rd Dec 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...

Monsieur Le Duc

7. Monsieur Le Duc

1h

10th Dec 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.

In Love and War

8. In Love and War

1h

17th Dec 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.

First air date

29th Oct 1980

Last air date

17th Dec 1980

Status

Ended

Type

Miniseries

Original language

en

Networks