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Love in a Cold Climate (1980)
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.
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Release Date:
Wed, Oct 29, 1980
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Michael Williams
Davey Warbeck
Michael Aldridge
Uncle Matt
John Moffatt
Lord Merlin
Lucy Gutteridge
Linda
Judi Dench
Aunt Sadie
Richard Hurndall
Lord Montdore
Anthony Stewart Head
Tony Kroesig
Vivian Pickles
Lady Montdore
Diana Fairfax
Emily Warbeck
Michael Cochrane
Cedric Hampton
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Fabrice, Duc de Sauveterre
David Parfitt
Little Matt
Amanda Boxer
Young Baroness
Anthony Higgins
Juan
Michael Elwyn
Rolly
Michael Elwyn
Roly
Season 1:
We meet the Radlett family engaged in one of its happiest pursuits - Lord Alconleigh hunts his daughters with bloodhounds.
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.
Engagements to be married come about for good and bad reasons - and some are more approved of than others.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.