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Love for Lydia

This thirteen-part series explores just how painful love can be for young people. Would-be writer Edward Richardson is in love with heiress Lydia Aspen and wants her all to himself. Lydia professes to be in love with him, but her first love is excitement. There are several other young men who vie with Richardson for Lydia's affection, and she sends mixed signals to them all, playing them off against each other, sometimes with dire results. At least that's the way Richardson sees things, but it's not the whole story.

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Cast & Crew See All

Mel Martin
Lydia Aspen
Christopher Blake
Richardson
Sherrie Hewson
Nancy Holland

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Episode #1.1

50 mins

Young reporter Edward Richardson despises his job at Evensford's small-town newspaper and longs to be a real writer. As he gazes out the window through a sudden fall of snow, he glimpses a young girl, dark-haired and pale, riding between the elderly Aspen sisters in the back of their chauffeur-driven Daimler. "She's the niece," his crotchety boss explains, "the one who will come into the money."

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Awards

  • 1978 - BAFTA TV Award - Best Lighting - nominated
  • 1978 - BAFTA TV Award - Best Film Cameraman - nominated
  • 1978 - BAFTA TV Award - Best VTR Editor - nominated
  • 1978 - BAFTA TV Award - Best VTR Editor - nominated

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