Featuring dramatised versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society.
Victorian Scandals (Season 1)
The Frontiers of Science (Episode 1)
Writer: Michael Hastings
Air date: 1976-09-03
Runtime: 55 min
Overview: A group of con artists posing as spiritualists go head to head with a real one.
Skittles (Episode 2)
Writer: Elizabeth Jane Howard
Air date: 1976-09-10
Runtime: 55 min
Overview: The story of Catherine 'Skittles' Walters, a notorious Victorian courtesan.
The Portland Millions (Episode 3)
Writer: Ian Curteis
Air date: 1976-09-17
Runtime: 55 min
Overview: Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.
A Pitcher of Snakes (Episode 4)
Writer: Peter Prince
Air date: 1976-09-24
Runtime: 55 min
Overview: Authors Charlotte Brontë and William Makepeace Thackeray attend the same dinner party when the hostess's husband suddenly arrives and wants his wife to come back to him.
Hannah (Episode 5)
Writer: Arthur Hopcraft
Air date: 1976-10-01
Runtime: 55 min
Overview: Scholar and photographer Arthur Munby orchestrates a study of working-class women, and secretly marries Hannah Cullwick, who continues to pose as his servant.
The Fruits of Philosophy (Episode 6)
Writer: David Yallop
Air date: 1976-10-08
Runtime: 55 min
Overview: An attempt to publish a pamphlet advocating birth control results in a notorious prosecution for obscenity.
Beloved (Episode 7)
Writer: Matthew Clare
Air date: 1976-10-10
Runtime: 55 min
Overview: When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion called the Abode of Love.
Seasons
Episodes 7