The Onedin Line - Season 6
Season 6
Network
Episodes10
DatesJul 16, 1978 - Sep 17, 1978
Episodes
Season 6Episode 150 min
No Smoke Without Fire
As James takes the Christian Radich across the equator, a fire breaks out, and then some of Daniel Fogarty's bars of gold bullion are missing,
Jul 16, 1978
Season 6Episode 250 min
Collision Course
William takes a Frazer ship out in fog and gets it in a collision with one of the Onedin ships. It is arranged that the elderly, weak Captain Oliphant should be held responsible. Oliphant later kills himself and William is filled with remorse. Elizabeth is relieved to see that he possesses some humanity. However he is seeing Charlotte, supposedly the fiancée of a dissatisfied Samuel, who wants a more active life than working in the family shop. At dinner Samuel's father Robert chokes on a bone and dies.
Jul 23, 1978
Season 6Episode 350 min
Double Dealers
Once again William takes Beaumont's advice and both men discover that they have been duped. But James believes that his nephew deliberately sank a ship.
Jul 30, 1978
Season 6Episode 450 min
Stand by to Go About
Daniel is anxious to break the Liverpool to Manchester railway's transport monopoly of the Merseyside docks and rail board. Elizabeth suggests that they use the canal system to beat the railways. Daniel is initially unresponsive but sees the prospect of steamers being used on the canals. Samuel continues to develop his idea of mail order trading. James accepts a cargo with no questions asked or papers only to find it is from the proceeds of a robbery in Manchester.
Aug 6, 1978
Season 6Episode 550 min
The Upright Man
James and Sir Daniel combine to thwart William in his bid to buy the five ships belonging to elderly Captain Murchieson on behalf of devious banker Josiah Beaumont, whom Elizabeth sees as a bad influence on her son. William moves into his own flat, where he secretly sees Charlotte, though Letty finds out. Captain Baines is tricked into buying a piano to sell in Norway, but ultimately turns the situation to his own advantage.
Aug 13, 1978
Season 6Episode 650 min
The Reverend's Daughter
Elizabeth clashes with Daniel over his support for the Manchester Ship Canal, which she fears will weaken Liverpool as a port. Her anger is compounded when she is approached for patronage by charismatic young orphanage director Marcus Simmons, who tells her that families are being evicted to clear the land for the canal's construction. Daniel is innocent of this fact but it enables him to expose a business partner immorally buying up land to sell at a profit to the constructors and he supports the orphanage. James travels to Africa with missionaries as passengers, Reverend Webster and his daughter Hannah, relatives of Anne, his late wife. Hannah's religious zeal, however, proves to be a liability whilst Letty has still not told James her news.
Aug 20, 1978
Season 6Episode 750 min
Highly Explosive
Letty tells James that she is pregnant and Charlotte gives William the same news. He is stunned and, as he does not love her, refuses to marry her - although she has confided in Samuel that she believes they will wed. Samuel takes the news badly and, when he and James, sailing to Ireland, come across a deserted steamer full of high explosives, feels sufficiently reckless to help James put the cargo overboard, though they are successful and claim the salvage rights. William turns twenty-one and inherits his mother's share of the Frazer yard, which he intends to sell.
Aug 27, 1978
Season 6Episode 850 min
A Sea of Troubles
James learns of Charlotte's situation but refuses permission for her to marry William, whom he regards as worthless, and sends her out of Liverpool to have her child. He also encourages Daniel to stand against the greedy Beaumont as a councillor to thwart the banker's aim to take more land for himself if elected though Elizabeth is still unhappy about her husband's support for the ship canal. Captain Baines brings home a ship from South America, whose dying captain is an old enemy of his. Baines falls for the man's wife and considers buying the ship when her husband dies but James beats him to it.
Sep 3, 1978
Season 6Episode 950 min
Men of Honour
As the council election approaches, Elizabeth, equally disapproving of her husband's interest in the Manchester Ship Canal and his rival Beaumont's plan to enrich himself with his 'new' Liverpool, ensures that each hears of, and publicizes, the other's plan so that both lose the election to her candidate, Marcus Simmons. Daniel then announces that he will be standing as a Manchester M.P. James, stuck in Ireland thanks to port inspectors with vested interests, finally returns to Liverpool for the birth of his son, though the child is weak and is not expected to survive.
Sep 10, 1978
Season 6Episode 1050 min
The Fortune Hunters
Newly elected to Parliament Daniel joins with Elizabeth to prevent William from selling the Frazer Line to an apparent consortium, actually a front for Beaumont. To take his mind off his son's death James sails to Africa with Captain Baines to find diamonds but they end up adrift in an open boat for three months. Letty never doubts that he will come back and, on his return, he gives half of the Onedin Line to Samuel, who has married Charlotte just in time for the birth of her son.
Sep 17, 1978
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