8.9/1020 votesLoading...#1 - Uncharted Island
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 5/30/1976
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/1028 votesLoading...
#2 - Race for Power
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/31/1972
No description available
Director: Peter Graham Scott
Writer: Cyril Abraham
- 8.6/1018 votesLoading...
#3 - The Passenger
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/1974
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1023 votesLoading...
#4 - Pound and Pint
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1972
No description available
Director: Ben Rea
Writer: Cyril Abraham
- 8.5/1013 votesLoading...
#5 - The Fortune Hunters
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 9/17/1978
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1012 votesLoading...
#6 - Homeward Bound
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 9/23/1979
The Doyles return to Liverpool and Samuel declares his love for Helen but Charlotte refuses to divorce him - whilst Sarah and Fergus spend time together. Elizabeth learns that Daniel is the new ambassador to Turkey, an appointment engineered by Marston's father so that she will be obliged to leave Liverpool and join her husband . Helped by Tom, for whom he has arranged a master's apprenticeship, James tracks down Burgess, who has stolen back the ship the 'Black Pearl'. However he lets him keep the ship and returns to Liverpool, finding his house full of children following a fire at Letty's orphanage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1013 votesLoading...
#7 - A Royal Return
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 8/31/1980
Letty has died from diphtheria caught from one of her orphans and Elizabeth has returned from Turkey to ensure the orphanage remains open. Sarah is on a Cook's tour of the world, Samuel has his own ships, bought from selling the shares William left his son Robert, as well as becoming the youngest chairman of the chamber of commerce. He divorces Charlotte and is awarded custody of the children but agrees to repay the shares in the little boy's account.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1014 votesLoading...
#8 - The Trade Winds
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 7/17/1977
Having exposed Macauley's insurance scam James proposes to Letty, who accepts. Daniel also returns to Liverpool, now a very wealthy man. Robert considers opening a department store and travels with Captain Baines and Samuel to New York, where he is robbed and very nearly press-ganged. James takes on a voyage to import some sheep but it causes him to postpone the wedding and Letty, as a consequence, declares the engagement and wedding off.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1012 votesLoading...
#9 - Highly Explosive
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 8/27/1978
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1013 votesLoading...
#10 - Liverpool Bound
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 7/22/1979
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1013 votesLoading...
#11 - Blood Ties
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/1980
An ancient cannon Captain Baines believes to have belonged to Henry Morgan and spirited Margarita, daughter of South American president Juarez, join James' latest cargo but on arrival in Margarita's home country James finds that her father is about to be overthrown in a revolution by his brother-in-law. When the rebels attack James and Tom help the Juarezes to escape but the president is shot by a sniper and, as the surviving trio row back to the ship under fire, the cannon comes in very handy. Elizabeth counts the financial cost of putting up ransom money for her brother.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1024 votesLoading...
#12 - Shadow of Doubt
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1972
No description available
Director: Ben Rea
Writer: Cyril Abraham
- 8.3/1026 votesLoading...
#13 - Beyond the Upper Sea
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1972
No description available
Director: Cyril Coke
Writer: Moris Farhi
- 8.3/1025 votesLoading...
#14 - Goodbye, Goodbye
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1972
No description available
Director: David Cunliffe
Writer: David Weir
- 8.3/1016 votesLoading...
#15 - Law of the Fist
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 12/9/1973
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1015 votesLoading...
#16 - Coffin Ships
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 7/10/1977
Five ships, all carrying iron plate, have foundered - people betting on the losses, including Mr. Dunwoody, Elizabeth's clerk, who buys the company house where Robert and Sarah live, forcing them to return to live over the shop. James accepts a cargo of iron plate and discovers the ship is being sabotaged by Kirk, a sailor in the pay of Macauley, who also sunk the other five. Whilst Elizabeth's son, William is only interested in commerce, Robert's boy, Samuel, is keen to go to sea. James returns to Liverpool and finds that Letty, tired of waiting for a marriage proposal, has gone.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1011 votesLoading...
#17 - A Sea of Troubles
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 9/3/1978
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1011 votesLoading...
#18 - The Homecoming
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 7/29/1979
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1014 votesLoading...
#19 - Revenge
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 9/7/1980
Still in Bulgaria having dropped off the disguised, fugitive Prince Alexander Onedin and Captain Baines are captured by Tsarists, a fifty thousand pound ransom being required for their freedom. By selling off some of her shares and four of her brother's ships, Elizabeth raises the money and travels to Bulgaria with Samuel to hand it over. However the captives have already been rescued by the quick-thinking Tom and James is far from grateful to his sister for her gesture, which, he claims, will ruin him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1025 votesLoading...
#20 - An Inch of Candle
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1972
Anne is Pregnant and is asked to buy a new house. James discovers an abandoned ship.
Director: Gerald Blake
Writer: Martin Worth
- 8.2/1018 votesLoading...
#21 - Danger Level
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/18/1973
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1017 votesLoading...
#22 - The Silver Caddy
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/13/1974
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1017 votesLoading...
#23 - Not Wanted on Voyage
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 5/9/1976
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1018 votesLoading...
#24 - A Close Run Thing
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 8/28/1977
James and Letty are to be married on board ship by Captain Baines but this nearly does not happen when a group of shanghaied sailors attempt to overwhelm them, the plan being foiled by elderly Captain Jack and the marriage does go ahead. Daniel Fogarty has returned from Australia a rich man. He has begun a charity, the Albert Fund, and is knighted for his services. He marries Elizabeth at last but James's experience has prevented him from being their best man.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1013 votesLoading...
#25 - A Long Way Home
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 10/26/1980
Max Van Der Rheede is imprisoned and James is free. He beats Samuel to the contract of transporting nitrate and sets sail with his first cargo. Against his orders Margarita accompanies him. She is pregnant and eventually gives birth to a son. James is overjoyed. Elizabeth, on the other hand, receives distressing news. Daniel's ship has sunk returning to England and he has drowned, making her a widow for a second time.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Onedin Line
Every episode of The Onedin Line ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Onedin Line!
The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham.
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Genre:Drama
Best Episodes Summary
"Uncharted Island" is the best rated episode of "The Onedin Line". It scored 8.9/10 based on 20 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/30/1976. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Race for Power".