EndedBBC One1975-10-05

Poldark

Name: Poldark
Genre: Drama
Released: 1975-10-05
Rating: 6.882
Cast: Robin Ellis, Angharad Rees, Jill Townsend, Ralph Bates, Kevin McNally

Drama~50 min

Seasons

Episodes

Networks

BBC One

Countries

First aired

1975-10-05

Last aired

1977-12-04

Language

Rating

6.9 / 10

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Synopsis and details

Poldark is a television drama based on Winston Graham's novels of the same title. It was first transmitted on BBC Two across two seasons between 1975 and 1977. The adaptation covered all seven novels (of the eventual twelve) published up to the time. In late 18th-century Cornwall, Ross Poldark loses his fiancée, well-bred beauty Elizabeth, to his cousin Francis. He ends up marrying his servant, Demelza Carne, but his passion for Elizabeth simmers on for years. Meanwhile, he strives to make his derelict copper mines a success. Life is hard, smuggling is rife, and Ross finds himself taking the side of the underclass against the ruthless behaviour of his enemies, the greedy Warleggan clan.