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1 :01x01 - Crossing The River
1942, The British army have been defeated by the Japanese in Malaya and Burma. Ghandi leads his peaceful revolution for the Independence of India. In Mayapore, a love affair grows between Hari Kumar, a Hindu man and Daphne Manners, a British woman. The affair incenses some intolerance. Based on Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet . This episode lasted 120 minutes.
2 :01x02 - The Bibighar Gardens
The attack on Daphne Manners. Rotter Merrick looks for Daphne in rioting Maypore. She and lover Hari are attacked in the Bibighar Gardens.
3 :01x03 - Questions Of Loyalty
Daphne has a final meeting with Sister Ludmila before moving to Kashmir for the birth of her child. She goes there to stay with her aunt, Lady Manners.
4 :01x04 - Incidents At A Wedding
Susan Layton (Wendy Morgan) marries Teddie(Nicholas Farrel). Suan and Teddie's wedding is threatened, but Merrick saves the day.
5 :01x05 - The Regimental Silver
Merrick apologises to Sarah; Laura Manners is haunted by the night of the Bibighar. Susan Layton has married Ronald Merrick, but their happiness was marred by a strange attack on the car taking Merrick to church.
6 :01x06 - Ordeal By Fire
The full story of Teddy Bingham's death.
7 :01x07 - Daughters Of The Regiment
Sarah is invited out by Jim Clark. Jimmy (Stuart Wilson) takes Sarah to a concert at the home of a wealthy Indian. A challenge and a confession in Calcutta and Pankat.
8 :01x08 - The Day Of The Scorpion
Sarah Leyton returns from Calcutta at the time Barbie is to leave Rose Cottage after the death of Mabel.
9 :01x09 - The Towers Of Silence
Barbie sets out on a mission but is turned back by a ghastly discovery. She has two strange encounters---one at Captain Coley's house and the other at Rose Cottage.
10 :01x10 - An Evening At Maharanee's
Merrick draws Guy Perron, of Military Intelligence, into a web of intrigue; Sarah goes to Bombay to visit Colonel Layton. Colonel Layton has been released from prison camp. In Bombay, Sarah and Merrick attend the party of a maharani, whose other guests include Bronowsky (Eric Porter) and Ahmed (Derrick Branche).
11 :01x11 - Travelling Companions
Sarah and her father travel to Pankot while Barbie remains in hospital in Ranpur. En route to Pankot, Merrick and Perron encounter Nigel Rowan, who seems to have information about Merrick's past.
12 :01x12 - The Moghul Room
Barbie has died but Sophie has a story to tell. Guy (Charles Dance) learns that Merrick has gained access to Susan's psychiatric records.
13 :01x13 - Pandora's Box
In 1947, Guy returns to India from Cambridge to witness the final push toward independence.
14 :01x14 - The Division Of The Spoils
Final episode of the series. What begins with a rape ends with a murder as the story concludes amid the turmoil of the final days of the British raj.