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Victorian Scandals
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Featuring dramatised versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society.
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- 01A Pitcher of SnakesAuthors 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.
Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01The Frontiers of ScienceSeptember 3, 1976—A group of con artists posing as spiritualists go head to head with a real one.
- S01E02SkittlesSeptember 10, 1976—The story of Catherine 'Skittles' Walters, a notorious Victorian courtesan.
- S01E03The Portland MillionsSeptember 17, 1976—Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.
- S01E04A Pitcher of SnakesSeptember 24, 1976Authors Charlotte Brontë and William Makepeace Thackeray attend the same dinner party when the hostess's husband suddenly arrives and wants
- S01E05HannahOctober 1, 1976—Scholar and photographer Arthur Munby orchestrates a study of working-class women, and secretly marries Hannah Cullwick, who continues to po
- S01E06The Fruits of PhilosophyOctober 8, 1976—An attempt to publish a pamphlet advocating birth control results in a notorious prosecution for obscenity.
- S01E07BelovedOctober 10, 1976—When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion called the Abode of Love.