Love in a Cold Climate

1980 - 1980

Child Hunt

29th October 1980

Episode 1

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

Coming Out

5th November 1980

Episode 2

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

12th November 1980

Episode 3

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

The Merry Widower

19th November 1980

Episode 4

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

26th November 1980

Episode 5

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

3rd December 1980

Episode 6

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

10th December 1980

Episode 7

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

17th December 1980

Episode 8

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.

Top Cast

Michael Williams•Michael Aldridge•John Moffatt

Director

Donald McWhinnie

Writer

Simon Raven

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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Michael Williams Image

Michael Williams

Davey Warbeck

Michael Aldridge Image

Michael Aldridge

Uncle Matt

John Moffatt

Lord Merlin

Lucy Gutteridge Image

Lucy Gutteridge

Linda

Judi Dench Image

Judi Dench

Aunt Sadie

Richard Hurndall Image

Richard Hurndall

Lord Montdore

Anthony Stewart Head Image

Anthony Stewart Head

Tony Kroesig

Vivian Pickles Image

Vivian Pickles

Lady Montdore

Diana Fairfax Image

Diana Fairfax

Emily Warbeck

Michael Cochrane Image

Michael Cochrane

Cedric Hampton

Jean-Pierre Cassel Image

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Fabrice, Duc de Sauveterre

David Parfitt Image

David Parfitt

Little Matt

Amanda Boxer Image

Amanda Boxer

Young Baroness

Anthony Higgins Image

Anthony Higgins

Juan

Michael Elwyn Image

Michael Elwyn

Rolly

Michael Elwyn Image

Michael Elwyn

Roly

Full Crew

Donald McWhinnie

Director

Simon Raven

Writer

Nancy Mitford

Novel

Sheila Trezise

Casting

Gerald Savory

Producer

David Marshall

Production Design

Robert Ide

Production Design

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