Welcome to Cornwall, England's westernmost county. The year is 1780, and the political and social atmosphere is as stormy as the sea that pounds the rocky shores. Into this landscape, Captain Ross Poldark (Robin Ellis) returns from the American war to take up his inheritance and take up with his beloved Elizabeth (Jill Townsend). But with false reports of his death having reached Cornwall ahead of him, what will he find? And what of the young urchin Demelza (Angharad Rees), the new house keeper at Nampara? Can she console the heart-broken Ross? And just who is the father of her unborn child? First broadcast in 1975, this release features the first half of Series One of Poldark.

Welcome to Cornwall, England's westernmost county

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