The Onedin Line - Season 7

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Liverpool Bound

Season 7Episode 150 min

Liverpool Bound

In Liverpool, James learns from his brother Robert that the ship Maisie Agnes has sunk. To make matters worse, the ship had been chartered by Callon, and the insurance company refuses to pay the claim because the cargo included barrels of gunpowder, which caused the disaster. Determined to take advantage of the situation, Callon forces the Onedins into bankruptcy. To settle the debt, they will have to sell the Charlotte Rhodes and Robert's shop. In response, James decides to embark on one last voyage, this time carrying a cargo of gunpowder.

Season 7Episode 250 min

The Homecoming

Leaving Letty feeling adrift in their new, large country house James sails to Belfast, persuading cash-strapped Captain Seth Burgess to cut him into his steamship line. William returns from two years abroad and instantly detects the cool atmosphere between his parents. Samuel and Charlotte make it clear to him that they want nothing to do with him but feel remorseful after William dies, saving a group of children from being trampled by a runaway horse and cart. His death also goes some way to reconciling his parents.

The Paddy Westers

Season 7Episode 350 min

The Paddy Westers

Seth Burgess urgently needs crewmen for a voyage to New York and turns in desperation to Paddy West, who makes a thriving business of turning landlubber emigrants into
instant sailors, thus enabling them to evade American immgration control.

Season 7Episode 450 min

Dirty Cargo

Whilst Charlotte becomes bored with life with Samuel, James learns that Elizabeth is sailing to South Africa with a mysterious and dangerous cargo. She is in fact gun-running. James needs money for the repair of his steamer and sails after his sister, illegally using a bogus distress flag to get her to stop. He persuades her that she is in an awkward position and buys the guns from her as a job lot. However, when he tries to sell them to Major Nesbitt in South Africa, he makes a heavy loss, which amuses Captain Baines.

To Honour and Obey

Season 7Episode 550 min

To Honour and Obey

James takes Mr. Da Silva and his cargo of lemons to the Azores but crew members Harris and McDade bully cabin boy Tom into helping them rob his possessions and kill the bosun when he tries to stop them. Eventually Tom does the decent thing, leading to their arrest. Samuel gives Charlotte three thousand pounds but, charmed by Seth Burgess, she gives it to him supposedly as a business investment. However he intends to buy back his ship 'The Black pearl' with it and leave her behind.

Season 7Episode 650 min

Running Free

Seth Burgess obtains a contract to take China clay to Jamaica but whilst James is transporting it Burgess elopes with Charlotte and her Onedin line shares. Whilst Samuel shows no interest in pursuing them James offers a reward for their apprehension. Having found a baby left on her doorstep, which she hands onto the orphanage, Letty plans to open her own home for waifs and strays with the money obtained from Samuel for the sale of her factory. With Daniel now permanently in London, Elizabeth meets Charles Marston, wealthy heir to a colliery and steelworks, with whom she strikes up a business deal.

Season 7Episode 750 min

The Suitor

Whilst Charles Marston goes into partnership with Elizabeth to build a South American railway Sarah accepts a marriage proposal from steamboat captain Dampier. Captain Baines sails to France with a passenger, likeable young Thomas Bullen, who saves the life of cabin boy Tom. When Bullen is recalled to England to answer a theft charge brought about by Marston, James, who dislikes his sister's new partner, and Captain Baines are pleased when Bullen proves his innocence. Unfortunately Bullen also, unwittingly, alerts them to the fact that Dampier is a penniless fortune-hunter so James pays him off to leave Sarah.

Season 7Episode 850 min

Storm Clouds

Letty faces opposition to establishing her orphanage from bigots who feel it will lower the tone of the area. Despite herself Elizabeth finds herself falling for Charles Marston and agrees to ship a cargo of wine over in time for his father's birthday but her ship needs repairs so she gets James to do it instead. As Marston is now in his debt James gets him to persuade the lease-holder of the proposed orphanage, a family friend of the Marstons, to sell it to Letty despite the local protests.

Season 7Episode 950 min

Outward Bound

James pursues Charlotte and Burgess to Cyprus where he exposes the young captain's interest in his daughter as being purely mercenary, persuading a despairing Charlotte to return home with him. Samuel is smitten by charming actress Helen Doyle and she too is fond of him whilst accepting that her father Fergus is using Samuel's acquaintance to get Sarah to finance his new play. Samuel is saddened when the Doyles' touring company moves on and makes it clear to the returning Charlotte that their marriage is over. Marston is keen to marry Elizabeth and is angry when his father approaches her asking his help in finding a wife for his son.

Season 7Episode 1050 min

Homeward Bound

'It's Onedin! Well, he'll not take us without a fight. Best arm yourselves, lads.'

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