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| 1 :01x01 - A Family Festival (Jan/07/1967) | | Winifred Forsyte gets engaged to the charming but financially irresponsible Montague Dartie. Jo begins an affair with his children's Austrian governess Helene and is informed at the wedding of Winifred and Monte that she is carrying his child. | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Donald Wilson (1) | |
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| 2 :01x02 - A Family Scandal (Jan/14/1967) | | Jo shocks the Forsytes when he decides to divorce his wife and shack up with Helene and their child. Old Jolyon then disinherites Jo in favor of granddaughter June. Meanwhile, Soames Forsyte falls head over heels in love with penniless hot chick Irene Herrin. | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Donald Wilson (1) | |
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| 3 :01x03 - The Pursuit of Happiness (Jan/21/1967) | | Two sons are born: Winifred and Monty Dartie give birth to Val and Jo and Helene become the parents of the third generation of Jolyon Forsytes nicknamed Jolly. In other events: Jo and Helene marry when Jo's wife dies, Monty begs Winifred's father, James, for money to ease his debts, Old Jolyon assumes parental authority over June, and Soames finally gets Irene to agree to marry him. | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Donald Wilson (1) | |
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| 4 :01x04 - Dinner at Swithin's (Jan/28/1967) | | Several years pass and the Forsytes are abuzz with the news of young June's engagement to architect Phillip Bosinney. Irene has endured an icy marriage to Soames but when she meets Bosinney the sparks begin flying. Elsewhere, Helene feels guilty over the fact that Jo is separated from his daughter, June. | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Constance Cox | |
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| 5 :01x05 - A Man of Property (Feb/04/1967) | | Montague Dartie continues to rack up debts. Soames hires Bosinney to build a mansion for himself and Irene at Robin Hill, a country estate outside of London. This leads to a liaison between Irene and the architect. Elsewhere, Old Jolyon pays a surprise visit to Jo and Helene at their home, and tries to mend some fences. | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Constance Cox | |
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| 6 :01x06 - Decisions (Feb/11/1967) | | Irene continues her affair with Phillip Bosinney while Soames threatens legal action against the architect because of cost overruns at Robin Hill. Then, in a fit of rage, Soames rapes Irene. | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Donald Wilson (1) | |
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| 7 :01x07 - Into the Dark (Feb/18/1967) | | After being raped by her husband, Irene contacts Phillip Bosinney and announces her intentions of running away with him but when she tells him the news of the assault he runs off into the thick fog of the London night. The next day the architect is absent from court in the lawsuit filed against him by Soames thus giving the Forsytes a default victory. Later, the Forsytes are called to the morgue to identify a man run down by a carriage in the thick fog. Guess who it is? | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Constance Cox | |
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| 8 :01x08 - Indian Summer of a Forsyte (Feb/25/1967) | | After the death of Bosinney, Irene briefly returns to Soames and then leaves him for good. Jo and his family settle into the house at Robin Hill. Fallen woman Irene then develops a surprising friendship with Old Jolyon who leaves her a special bequest in his will. | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Donald Wilson (1) | |
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| 9 :01x09 - In Chancery (Mar/04/1967) | | Eight years have passed since the previous episode. Old Jolyon and Helene have both died. Montague Dartie steals Winifred's pearls and sails for Buenos Aires with a Brazilian hoochie coochie dancer. Meanwhile, at Oxford, Young Jo's daughter Holly meets Val Dartie and the two become attracted to each other. Soames then meets Annette Lamotte, a gold digging French chick, and decides to marry her. So he must seek out estranged wife Irene and ask for a divorce. | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Laurie Craig | |
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| 10 :01x10 - The Challenge (Mar/11/1967) | | Val Dartie and Holly Forsyte continue their romance while Soames hires a private detective in hopes of gathering evidence for a divorce from Irene who flees to Paris where she is joined by Jo. The two then begin to fall in love but Jo returns to Robin Hill after receiving news that his son, Jolly, plans to fight in the Boer War. | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Laurie Craig | |
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| 11 :01x11 - In the Web (Mar/18/1967) | | Investigators discover enough evidence against Irene for Soames to proceed in his divorce action. Val and Holly become secretly engaged. Montague Dartie returns from Argentina bowed and broken and Winifred amazingly takes him back. Val, Jolly, Holly, and June all head to South Africa to participate in the Boer War in some capacity or another. | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Laurie Craig | |
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| 12 :01x12 - Birth of a Forsyte (Feb/25/1967) | | Jolly gets killed in South Africa while Holly and Val Dartie decide to remarry and settle there. Soames receives an uncontested divorce and quickly gets re-married to Annette in hopes of fathering a son but instead is presented with a daughter who is named Fleur. Elsewhere, Jo and Irene marry and she gives birth to a son whom the couple names Jon. | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Laurie Craig | |
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| 13 :01x13 - Encounter (Apr/01/1967) | | Twenty years (which include World War I) slip away and the next generation of Forsytes takes the stage. Holly and Val have returned from South Africa and now own a horse farm in Surrey where young Jon decides to train as a farmer. Fleur Forsyte has become a beautiful and spoiled young woman who becomes infatuated with Jon when they meet at the Surrey farm. Though aware of a feud between the two branches of Forsytes, they are unaware of the specifics and vow to hold onto their love for all time. | Director: James Cellan Jones (1)
Writer: Vincent Tilsley | |
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| 14 :01x14 - Conflict (Apr/08/1967) | | Jon and Fleur try to discover the reasons behind the Forsyte family feud but the elder Forsytes refuse to make a disclosure to them. Jo's health begins to fail and Fleur gets wooed by Michael Mont, the son of a baronet. | Director: James Cellan Jones (1)
Writer: Vincent Tilsley | |
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| 15 :01x15 - To Let (Apr/15/1967) | | Fleur, having discovered the reasons behind the Forsyte family feud, desperately tries to get Jon to the altar before he does the same but it's to no avail. A dying Jo reveals to his son the story behind Irene's marriage to Soames, her affair with Phillip Bosinney, and the subsequent marital rape. Jon chooses his mother over Fleur who finds comfort in the arms of Michael Mont. | Director: James Cellan Jones (1)
Writer: Vincent Tilsley | |
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| 16 :01x16 - A Family Wedding (Apr/22/1967) | | After Jo's death, Jon and Irene relocate to Canada. Fleur then marries Michael Mont. Meanwhile, Soames is invited by Michael's father to join the board of directors of an insurance company where he immediately becomes suspicious of its managing director. | Director: James Cellan Jones (1)
Writer: Anthony Steven | |
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| 17 :01x17 - The White Monkey (Apr/29/1967) | | Soames pressures Fleur and Michael to present him with a grandchild but Fleur seems more interested in the attentions of poet Wilfred Desert. Meanwhile, the board of directors is slow to act upon Soames' recommendations against the officer who has been stealing the company blind. | Director: James Cellan Jones (1)
Writer: Anthony Steven | |
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| 20 :01x20 - A Silent Wooing (May/20/1967) | | Across the pond in the Carolinas, Jon and Irene are guests of Ann and Francis Wilmot. Jon and Ann fall in love and get married. Back in the mother country, Michael Mont is now a member of Parliament while Fleur has become a hostess with the mostest when it comes to throwing parties. At one of these parties, flapper Marjorie Ferrar makes a catty remark about Fleur which is overheard by Soames. Defending his daughter's honor, Soames ejects Marjorie from the party who then threatens to sue Fleur for libel. | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Anthony Steven | |
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| 22 :01x22 - The Silver Spoon (Jun/03/1967) | | The libel case of Ferrar v. Mont heads to court as Michael and Fleur drift even further apart. The court case reaches a settlement but the negative publicity makes Marjorie Ferrar seem like a victim and leads to the Monts being ostracized socially. | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Anthony Steven | |
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| 23 :01x23 - Strike (Jun/10/1967) | | Fleur, Soames, and Michael decide to take a trip around the world in order to escape the fallout from the Ferrar case. They narrowly avoid a meeting with Irene, Jon, and Ann in Washington D. C. Returning to England, the entire Forsyte family is affected by the General Strike of 1926. | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Donald Wilson (1) | |
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| 26 :01x26 - Swan Song (Jul/01/1967) | | Fleur finally manages to seduce Jon who immediately regrets being unfaithful to Ann. Irene then tries to get Fleur to back off by revealing that Ann is carrying Jon's child. Soames, who counsels Michael to stay the course in his marriage, later suffers a fatal injury from a fire in his picture gallery. Michael and Fleur reconcile as things come to a close. | Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: Donald Wilson (1) | |
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