Poldark

Period drama set in the 1780s. Ross Poldark joins the army to avoid charges of smuggling, leaving behind his sweetheart, Elizabeth, with the promise that he will return soon. Three years later, wounded and scarred, Ross returns home to discover that his father has died, his estate is in ruins and Elizabeth is set to marry his cousin, Francis.

Period drama set in the 1780s. When local mine Wheal Reath is closed violently by bailiffs, hundreds of miners, including Jim, find themselves out of work and desperately poor. Ross, having repaired Nampara, now employs Jim as a farm-hand, and thinks to resurrect his family's mine, Wheal Leisure. He hopes to bring prosperity to the area again, but is advised against the venture by his banker and friend, Harris Pascoe, who does not believe he could find speculators in the current climate.

Period drama set in the 1780s. Wheal Leisure is opened, but immediately hits ironstone that will require additional funds for gunpowder. At the mine, Zacky confides in Ross that his daughter Jinny is pregnant by Jim. Ross offers the young couple one of his cottages free of rent, so that Jim and Jinny can marry.

Period drama set in the 1780s. The news of Ross and Demelza's marriage shocks Trenwith and Charles' amusement at the thought brings on a fatal heart attack. On his death-bed, he asks Ross to look after Francis who is drinking, gaming and whoring his family's money away. Verity visits Nampara and despite Demelza's worry that she is too common for Verity, the two quickly become firm friends, and Verity teaches Demelza how to be a refined lady.

Ross and Demelza welcome two new arrivals: Dwight Enys, a doctor who plans to make a study of lung diseases at Wheal Leisure and their own baby daughter, Julia Grace Poldark. At Julia’s christening, Demelza resolves to lift Verity’s spirits by reconciling her with her lost love, Captain Blamey. Meanwhile, Mark has fallen in love with the capricious Keren, who demands he find her a home before they are married. Ross helps Mark renovate one of his dilapidated cottages.

The Carnmore smelting company is a success and Ross makes more of an enemy of George by outbidding him for copper at auction. Meanwhile, Francis is increasingly volatile now that he has lost his mine and is reduced to working the land, so Verity avoids speaking to him about her plans to marry Captain Blamey.

Ross is struggling to keep the Carnmore smelting company afloat, now that George is determined to crush it. George's agents are outbidding Carnmore in order to starve it of copper and George is trying to find ways to get to its shareholders, who all remain secret except Ross. After a rockfall at Wheal Leisure, Mark returns home early to find that Keren is not there. He tracks her to Dwight's house and realises that they have been sleeping together.

Ross tries one last time to turn around the fortunes of Carnmore, but after they are outbid he reluctantly folds the company. George has won and takes the opportunity to rub Ross' face in it, showing off his new ship, the Queen Charlotte, and inviting Matthew Sanson to return. Meanwhile, Dwight is consumed with guilt over Keren's death and is throwing himself into work dealing with an outbreak of the putrid throat.