Highlights
Victorian Scandals

Victorian Scandals - Series 1 (1976)

Series 1 Episodes

1. The Frontiers of Science

September 3rd, 197655 min

A group of con artists posing as spiritualists go head to head with a real one.

2. Skittles

September 10th, 197655 min

The story of Catherine 'Skittles' Walters, a notorious Victorian courtesan.

3. The Portland Millions

September 17th, 197655 min

Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.

4. A Pitcher of Snakes

September 24th, 197655 min

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.

5. Hannah

October 1st, 197655 min

Scholar and photographer Arthur Munby orchestrates a study of working-class women, and secretly marries Hannah Cullwick, who continues to pose as his servant.

6. The Fruits of Philosophy

October 8th, 197655 min

An attempt to publish a pamphlet advocating birth control results in a notorious prosecution for obscenity.

7. Beloved

October 10th, 197655 min

When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion called the Abode of Love.