Victorian Scandals (1976)
Synopsis
Featuring dramatised versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society.
First Air Date: 1976-09-03
Last Air Date: 1976-10-10
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 7
Created By: Michael Cox
Networks: ITV1
Top Cast
- Twiggy as Florence Cook
- Herbert Ramskill as Charles Blackburn
- Tim Barlow as Captain Elgie Corner
- Ania Marson as Katie Cook
- Danny Schiller as Harry J. Encken
- Ronald Hines as William Crookes
- Lewis Fiander as Daniel Dunglass Home
- Lorraine Peters as Crookes' Maid
- Pauline Peart as N/A
- Maureen O'Brien as Catherine 'Skittles' Walters
Seasons
None (1976)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: The Frontiers of Science
A group of con artists posing as spiritualists go head to head with a real one.
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Ep. 2: Skittles
The story of Catherine 'Skittles' Walters, a notorious Victorian courtesan.
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Ep. 3: The Portland Millions
Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.
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Ep. 4: A Pitcher of Snakes
Authors Charlotte Brontë and William Makepeace Thackeray attend the same dinner party when the hostess's husband suddenly arrives and wants his wife to come back to him.
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Ep. 5: Hannah
Scholar and photographer Arthur Munby orchestrates a study of working-class women, and secretly marries Hannah Cullwick, who continues to pose as his servant.
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Ep. 6: The Fruits of Philosophy
An attempt to publish a pamphlet advocating birth control results in a notorious prosecution for obscenity.
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Ep. 7: Beloved
When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion called the Abode of Love.
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