Episode list

When lord Dylan Brooks, a relief charity doctor, returns from Africa, he finds his mother mortgaged the family's Cornwall seaside estate to the hilt and beyond to turn it into a discarded horses asylum. He seeks a bank loan and accepts the terms of Gillian Morris, an ambitious Dixieland immigrant who risks expulsion and her bank CEO job unless she finds a British husband. Meanwhile Matt St. James, the unruly son of a relative who stays on the estate, was expelled from boarding school, nearly sets fire to the stables and finds salvation during stable chores with ex-con Fin Hogan, which ends up inspiring a solution after the loan falls trough.

Peter Franklin runs a London auction house with his father and young-orphaned wife Stella, but her naive idealistic approach doesn't square with business. She jumps at a chance to leave for Cornwall, where she's invited to the reading of the last will of an earl. To everyone's amazement, she inherited a countess title she never heard of and co-ownership of the splendid estate. The thus half-disinherited wasteful, disloyal widow and her sister plot against Stella. Support comes from the enigmatic butler James and architect David Brighton, son of the estate managers and a fellow antiques devotee, who quickly becomes her passionate lover and companion in the search for secrets, stirred by mysteriously appearing clues.

The architect Tom is preparing the restoration of the St.Helena's orphanage. Sister Mary tells secretly to the police about some incidents in the orphanage. Sabrina, a clever policewoman decides to investigate undercover.

Housewife and mother of an adolescent, Ella is dreaming of the sea. Besides she discovers that her husband has a affair with this secretary. One day Ella travels to the seaside and arrives at Bay View Cafe.

Richard Kendall leads a double life with a wife on either side of the Atlantic. When he is killed in an airplane crash, there are complications for his two widowed wives.

Lord Carey-Lewis Loveday's testament leaves his Cornish estate, Nancherrow, to his penniless daughter Loveday, who loves it even more then he did. DEviting her life to it soon wrecks her previously marriage with farmer Walter, who is devoted to their son Ned, but can't prevent her dragging him to the estate after their breakup. Even generous widow Diane's fortune gradually runs out as the lovingly maintained estate without significant income requires crushing costs. Youth lover Gus Cullendar, whom Loveday cohabits with, moves back out after years of her obsession taking priority, returning to his London atelier and relation with a gallery keeper. Wealthy socialites offer prospects, even marriage, but none comes true. Finally she gives up putting off selling Nacheroow, but is greatly surprised during the auction.