W. Somerset Maugham

Season 2

13 episodes · Apr 23, 1970

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  • S2E1

    The Force of Circumstance

    Apr 23, 1970

    A woman agrees to emigrate to Malaya with her husband, but colonial life is not what she expected.

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  • S2E2

    Jane

    Apr 30, 1970

    A socialite is shocked when her frumpy sister-in-law announces her marriage to a foppish young man. Over the next two years, however, the homebody turns into a popular fashionista.

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  • S2E3

    Rain

    May 7, 1970

    A missionary, his wife, and a prostitute are among the guests stranded at a tropical hotel during the rainy season.

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  • S2E4

    The Unconquered

    May 14, 1970

    A French farmgirl is assaulted by a German soldier, but he begins to become obsessed by her.

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  • S2E5

    The Vessel of Wrath

    May 21, 1970

    The prim spinster sister of a missionary in the South Seas determines to reform a rascally beachcomber.

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  • S2E6

    Olive

    May 28, 1970

    Mark, a new arrival at a Malay colony, befriends Tim and Olive, a pair of unusually close siblings who isolate themselves from the other colonists and speak in their own made-up language.

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  • S2E7

    The Closed Shop

    Jun 4, 1970

    The president of a South American country changes his country's divorce laws for his own benefit.

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  • S2E8

    The Door of Opportunity

    Jun 11, 1970

    A colonial administrator's act of cowardice gets him sent home from the East, but he seems oblivious to the contempt with which he is viewed. Surely his friendly, companionable relationship with his wife seems to him quite unchanged.

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  • S2E9

    Virtue

    Jun 18, 1970

    A married woman falls for a younger man, and wonders whether to confess to her husband.

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  • S2E10

    Footprints in the Jungle

    Jun 25, 1970

    Margaret convinces her lover to murder her husband after she becomes pregnant. The murder is investigated by a dogged policeman whose judgment is clouded by his own feelings for the woman.

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  • S2E11

    The Alien Corn

    Jul 2, 1970

    Parents new to the aristocracy are both displeased and surprised when their elder son, who's never shown much aptitude for or interest in anything, declares that he must become a concert pianist. They agree at last to finance his study of the piano for two years, at the end of which he (and they) will accept the verdict of a recognized expert as to his chances of achieving his dream.

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  • S2E12

    The Human Element

    Jul 9, 1970

    A writer discovers that the superior woman he has long admired from afar is the longtime mistress of her own servant.

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  • S2E13

    Flotsam and Jetsam

    Jul 16, 1970

    A man recuperates uncomfortably at the home of an unpleasant man and his pathetic wife, whose startling tale makes her guest all the more eager to recover his strength and get away from the place.

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