The Onedin Line

The Onedin Line is a British television series of the 1970s from the BBC.



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[hide] *1 Themes  ==Themes[ Edit] == The series begins in 1860 in Liverpool and tells the story of a new liner shipping service, the Onedin Line, named after the owner James Onedin (Peter Gilmore). In addition to this main theme is also dealt with the life of his family, especially that of his brother and partner (Robert Onedin shopkeeper) and his sister Elizabeth. The series also gives a picture of the changes in the world of business and shipping, such as the transition from wooden to steel ships and from sailing-to steam ships, and the role played in theslave trade ships, for example,. ==Story[ Edit] == Captain James Onedin (Peter Gilmore) marries Anne Webster (Anne Stallybrass) in order to obtain the Charlotte Rhodes, a schooner of her father. Despite the marriage of convenience is nonetheless a good marriage. Things go well for James and he eventually becomes owner of a fleet of 25 sailing ships. His brother Robert is going to be a partnership with him, in order to manage the business on land, while James is at sea. Anne is also arranged along on business trips.
 * 2 Story
 * 3 episodes and volumes
 * 4 title reference
 * 5 Music
 * 6 Recording locations
 * 7 main roles
 * 8 Ships
 * 9 external link

Meanwhile, the sailing ships in the course of time more and more supplanted by steam ships, which sail faster. James ' sister Elizabeth (Jessica Benton), marries the shipbuilder Albert Frazer, which goes along with the new technique of steam ships and thereby makes fortune. This follows a fierce competition between James and his sister. ==Episodes and volumes[ Edit] == Between 1971 and 1980 published 91 episodes in eight volumes. These were broadcast in Netherlands from 1972 by the VARA. Parts of the series are still occasionally repeated. NostalgieNet sent in 2013 from the first two seasons.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The volumes differ in terms of angle clearly from each other. The first two volumes go about with marriage of Anne and James about the rise of the Onedin Line. The third year is in fact James ' processing of the loss of Anne. The fourth to seventh year describe the business competition between James and Elizabeth. The last year consists of a number of more or less self-contained stories that flow into a climax for both main characters. ==Title Reference<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The British women's magazine Woman published in 1973, a series of short stories about the Onedins written by Cyril Abraham, the creator of the series. In an interview in that magazine in July 1973 he laid out that he still had no last name at its main character James invented when the BBC decided to film the story at the time. Eventually he was by chance encountered the word Ondine (a mythological water nymph), that he into Onedin.

<p lang="en" len="417" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Abraham, itself residing in Liverpool had planned a complete series of books to write about the ups and downs of the Onedin Line into the twentieth century, but he died in 1979 after completion of his book The White Ships (1979). ==Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The opening melody of the series comes from the ballet Spartacus by Aram Khachaturian. The undulating movement of the music suits the heaving ships.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition, in the series to hear background music from Symphony No. 5 by Ralph Vaughan Williams, El sombrero de tres picos by Manuel de Falla, Symphony No. 2 by Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 and by Dmitri Shostakovich. ==Recording Locations<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The scenes for the The Onedin Line were included in Dartmouth,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="167" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  Exeter and Falmouth (all in the far south west of England) and Gloucester, close to the border with Wales. The last set was recorded at Pembroke Dock in Wales, where the 18th-century shipyard and surrounding streets the atmosphere of Liverpool had to exhale, and various other places along the coast in Pembrokeshire, suggested that Turkey and Portugal . ==Leading Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Ships<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="512" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the series, various historical ships, such as the Hero, an English steam ship from 1895 named in the credits, and include the following tall ships (large sailing ships):
 * Peter Gilmore -James Onedin
 * Anne Stallybrass -Anne Webster
 * Jessica Benton -Elizabeth Onedin
 * Howard Long -Mr. Baines (later Captain Baines)
 * Brian Rawlinson -Robert Onedin
 * Mary Webster -Sarah Onedin
 * Michael Billington (1971-1974) and Tom Adams (1977-1979)-Daniel Fogarty
 * Philip Bond -Albert Frazer

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Charlotte Rhodes, who was in to see episodes for 1976 was, on October 12, 1979 by arson destroyed when the ship lay moored in Amsterdam.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="167" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  In the later episodes was the role of the Charlotte Rhodes fulfilled by the Kathleen and May. The ship was called initially Christian (1904-1914), Eva (1914-1933), Anna (1933-1954) and Meta Jan (1954-1968)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="167" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  before it was sold to Dutch owners. In the television series is the Charlotte Rhodes property of Captain Joshua Webster, father of Anne, when James Onedin with her married.
 * Charlotte Rhodes, a Danish three masted schooner from 1904
 * Christian Radich, a Norwegian three masted schooner from 1937
 * Danmark, a Danish ship from 1932
 * Kathleen and May, a British schooner from 1900
 * Sagres, nowadays the Rickmer Rickmers, a German three-master from 1896
 * Soren Larsen, a Danish Brigantine (schooner brik) from 1948-' 49
 * Statsraad Lehmkuhl, a Norwegian three-master from 1914