The BEST episodes directed by Charles Sturridge
#1 - Episode 2
Shackleton - Season 1 - Episode 2
The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his 28 man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.
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#2 - Episode 1
Shackleton - Season 1 - Episode 1
The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his 28 man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.
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#3 - Orphans of the Storm
Brideshead Revisited - Season 1 - Episode 9
Charles and Julia meet on a transatlantic liner and begin an affair. Rex Mottram and Charles's wife conspire against them.
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#4 - Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited - Season 1 - Episode 11
Lord Marchmain, fatally ill, returns to England and prepares to die at Brideshead. Charles and Julia plan to marry and hope Brideshead will be theirs - but Julia's faith and sense of mortal sin are troubling her.
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#5 - Home and Abroad
Brideshead Revisited - Season 1 - Episode 2
While Sebastian recovers from a broken foot, he and Charles enjoy a long summer vacation on their own (apart from the servants) at Brideshead, drinking a lot of good wine. Then other members of the family arrive and have a lot to say about religion - the Flytes are devoutly Catholic.
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#6 - Part 2
Longitude - Season 1 - Episode 2
The ever-reliable Ian Hart appears in Part 3 as Harrison's now-adult son and apprentice, and Longitude approaches its dramatic climax with the exhilarating tension of a first-rate thriller. Rallying after sickness to prove the integrity of their marvelous seafaring chronometers, the Harrisons still had to fight for official recognition, and Gould's restoration of the Harrison clockworks provides a fitting coda to this exceptional story about the thrill of discovery and the tenacity of remarkable men.
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#7 - Part 1
Longitude - Season 1 - Episode 1
When the British Parliament creates an award of £20,000 to whoever can come up with a solution for determining longitude at sea, a carpenter-turned-clockmaker, John Harrison, begins his experiments to build an accurate timepiece unaffected by sea travel. His main obstacles are lack of money, a judgment Board convinced that the answer lies in astronomy and not clocks, and the mechanics of the clock itself.
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#8 - Episode 7
Sanditon - Season 1 - Episode 7
As the Sanditon summer regatta approaches, Sidney wrestles with his feelings towards an old flame and Young Stringer reveals his feelings to Charlotte. With Lady Denham at death's door, the tensions between Edward, Clara and Esther finally come to a head - with surprising consequences.
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#9 - Et in Arcadia Ego
Brideshead Revisited - Season 1 - Episode 1
1944: in the fifth year of the Second World War, a thoughtful middle-aged British Army officer, Captain Charles Ryder, finds himself posted unexpectedly to Brideshead Castle. Ryder has been there before, and time slips back to when he was an undergraduate at Oxford, twenty years before. There he meets Sebastian Flyte (a young man with a teddy bear) when Sebastian, rolling drunk, vomits through Charles's window and sends him flowers to apologize. Charles visits Brideshead for the first time.
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#11 - Episode 6
MotherFatherSon - Season 1 - Episode 6
Having chosen their sides, everyone digs themselves in for the impending war. Caden finds Orla to warn her that she may be caught in the crossfire - her secrets deployed as ammunition against Caden. Kathryn and Caden meet with journalists to get Caden’s story on record – an expose of the practices at Max’s newspapers. Max conducts a root-and-branch reform of his newspapers, but how will he deal with the threat posed by Kathryn and Caden?
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#13 - The Blood of Man
Da Vinci's Demons - Season 2 - Episode 1
The Pazzis make their move; Leonardo gambles for the future of Florence; Riario makes progress in his quest for the Book of Leaves.
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#14 - Episode 5
MotherFatherSon - Season 1 - Episode 5
Kathryn, Max and Caden gather at a remote rural house to delve into personal and political revelations. Will the family fight take the world stage?
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#15 - Episode 4
MotherFatherSon - Season 1 - Episode 4
As Caden spirals downwards, Kathryn learns the dark secrets of Max’s media empire and has a fateful decision to make.
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#16 - Episode 3
MotherFatherSon - Season 1 - Episode 3
Kathryn dedicates herself to Caden’s recovery, while Max grapples with the ramifications of his son’s physical and mental changes.
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#17 - Episode 1
Sanditon - Season 2 - Episode 1
Charlotte returns to Sanditon in unexpected circumstances. A company of Army Officers descend on the town, offering romantic opportunities for Charlotte and her sister and business opportunities for Tom. Meanwhile, Georgiana meets an intriguing artist and Esther Babington has an unwanted encounter with someone from her past.
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#18 - The Ends of the Earth
Da Vinci's Demons - Season 2 - Episode 4
Leonardo attempts to navigate the Atlantic without maps; Lucrezia is smuggled into the Vatican for an important meeting; Lorenzo's identity is discovered during his trip to Naples.
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#20 - Poison
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Season 1 - Episode 2
Mma Ramotswe finds herself investigating a case of ivory smuggling when she is asked to investigate the behaviour of Rra Lisindi. Mma Makutsi takes a look at some mysterious deaths at Tlokweng Hospital.
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#22 - A Story Short
Jim Henson's The Storyteller - Season 1 - Episode 4
From an early Celtic folk tale. This time, the story is about The Storyteller himself. Some time in his past, the Storyteller tells how he was forced to once beg for his supper. He starts with making a soup for a cook and another beggar using a stone. The cook that they come across lets them try, he's unbelieving and wants to see the soup made from a stone himself. So the Storyteller begins and asks for salt, which the cooks give, then stock, green, potatoes - until a soup is ready. When the truth finally dawns on the cook the Storyteller is brought in front of the king. His punishment is to tell the king a story every night for a year at the price of a golden crown per story. Miss one story, then the cook gets to boil the Storyteller. So time passes, and the Storyteller tells his stories, counts his money, cuddles with his new wife. Then on the last day, he can't think of a story and his mind is blank.
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#23 - Episode 2
Sanditon - Season 2 - Episode 2
Charlotte starts her new job as a Governess for the mysterious Alexander Colbourne. Alison is determined to be reunited with her knight in shining armor, and Georgiana finds out some bad news from Antigua. Meanwhile, Lady Denham receives an unexpected and unwanted surprise and Tom and Colonel Lennox make plans for Sanditon’s development.
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#25 - The Big Bonanza
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Season 1 - Episode 1
Botswana's No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency is in desperate need of clients. To boost business, Mma Makutsi prints up flyers, which seem to do the trick. Mma Ramotswe soon finds herself hunting down an absconding apostolic, finding a disappearing dog, and checking up on a definitely disturbed dentist
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#28 - The Boy with an African Heart
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Season 1 - Episode 3
Mma Ramotswe attempts to help Mrs Curtin discover what has happened to his son as he has been missing for 10 years. Mma Makutsi attempts to find out who is responsible for the Kgale hill break-ins.
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#29 - Sebastian Against the World
Brideshead Revisited - Season 1 - Episode 4
Sebastian's alcoholism, depression and misbehaviour become more and more of a problem. He is sent down (expelled) from Oxford and after an unhappy Easter at Brideshead goes abroad with a tutor, leaving Charles devastated. Charles's father agrees to his leaving the University to become a painter, so long as he also goes overseas.
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#30 - Part 2
Gulliver's Travels (1996) - Season 1 - Episode 2
Gulliver lives among pseudointellectuals on an island in the sky, and, back on earth, converses with horses that can reason in a land where humans can't.
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#31 - Mia and David
Dates - Season 1 - Episode 9
Mia feels stuck in the difficult position of actually being in a relationship with David. As she is about to meet his children for the first time, events take an awkward turn and she is forced to finally confront the gap in her life which she is attempting to fill.
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#32 - The Unseen Hook
Brideshead Revisited - Season 1 - Episode 7
With Lady Marchmain very near to death, Charles searches French Morocco for Sebastian. He finds him, and is shocked by what he finds.
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#33 - Julia
Brideshead Revisited - Season 1 - Episode 6
Rex Mottram is determined to marry Julia, a prospect which appals Lady Marchmain, who is fatally ill. She reluctantly agrees to a secret engagement. Then Brideshead makes his own dramatic announcement, and Julia reveals how far she has already gone in her relationship with Rex.Meanwhile, Rex is looking for Sebastian and believes Charles is hiding him.
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#34 - Part 1
Gulliver's Travels (1996) - Season 1 - Episode 1
The adventures of a shipwrecked 18th-century physician begin among militaristic little people and enlightened giants. Based on Jonathan Swift's book.
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#36 - Jenny and Nick
Dates - Season 1 - Episode 2
Jenny is a lonely primary school teacher recovering from a disastrous broken relationship. Nick is a city boy richly endowed with both cash and secrets. On their first date they find out everything there is to know about each other, and knowing everything can be a dangerous and unpredictable business.
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