The BEST episodes directed by Evelyn Waugh

Orphans of the Storm
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8.49
65 votes

#1 - 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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Brideshead Revisited
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8.14
36 votes

#2 - 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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Home and Abroad
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8.01
105 votes

#3 - 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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Et in Arcadia Ego
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7.83
145 votes

#4 - 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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Sebastian Against the World
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7.40
126 votes

#5 - 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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The Unseen Hook
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7.12
66 votes

#6 - 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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Julia
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7.10
124 votes

#7 - 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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