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The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series that ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham . The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 [ 1 ] and covers the rise of a fictional shipping company, the Onedin Line, named after its owner captain James Onedin.
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With Peter Gilmore, Jessica Benton, Howard Lang, Mary Webster. James Onedin marries Anne Webster in order to get his hands on a ship. However the marriage turns out to be one of true love. James is ruthless in his attempt to get a shipping line started in Liverpool of the 1860s.
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The Onedin Line was by far the most successful of all the Drama Playhouse stories which became series, though The Regiment and Sutherland’s Law also became popular. The Wind Blows Free, the title of The Onedin Line pilot, went out at 9.50 pm on Monday, 7 December on BBC1.
The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin.
A British drama, aired from 1971-1980, about a Family Business of Intrepid Merchants in the Victorian era. It begins with the disgruntled Captain James Onedin (Peter Gilmore) setting himself up as an independent businessman. He finds that an old ship is for sale which no one will buy.
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Sun, Sep 28, 1980. Defying the superstition that it is bad luck to set sail on a Friday, James travels to Africa and outwits a local witch doctor to establish a trading post on the Niger. However he falls out with Captain Baines, who now has his own ship, 'The Sea Spray', in the process.
