HOLD THE DREAM {PART 1 OF 2} (TV)
Summary
Part one of two in this dramatic miniseries. This drama, written by Barbara Taylor Bradford, is a sequel to "A Woman of Substance." In part one, Emma Harte, a family matriarch and the head of Harte Industries, allows her granddaughter, Paula, to manage various important projects. She expresses great confidence in Paula, who many believe is a carbon copy of Emma Harte herself. But Paula's husband, Jim, resents the fact that Harte Industries comes before he and their twins. Meanwhile, Paula's childhood friend, Shane, realizes that he is madly in love with Paula. Though he dares not say a word about his feelings, people begin to recognize his adoration for her. And Emma's daughter, Edwina, is angry with her son, Anthony, for abandoning his marriage and taking up with another woman, Sally. However, upon her mother's advice, Edwina decides to accept the situation in order to preserve her relationship with her son. When the family attends a surprise party in honor of Emma's eightieth birthday, Anthony's estranged wife, Minerva, drops in and swears she will never grant Anthony a divorce, while Emma announces that she has decided to retire. Emma passes on her responsibilities at Harte Industries to an ecstatic Paula, causing Jim to begin drinking excessively. Soon after this major event, Jim decides to resign from his managerial position at the Harte Industries newspaper; Minerva's water-logged body is found in a lake and Anthony becomes a murder suspect; Emma's longtime friend and companion, Blackie, dies; and Paula travels to New York on business, where she meets up with Shane and learns about his passionate desires as well as her own. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: WPIX-TV
- DATE: October 27, 1986 Monday 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:37:23
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:50229
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; Families; Romance
- SERIES RUN: Syndicated - TV, 1986
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Robert Bradford … Executive Producer
- Ian Warren … Co-Executive Producer
- Tom Donald … Co-Executive Producer
- Harry R. Sherman … Producer
- Ron Purdie … Associate Producer
- Don Sharp … Director
- Barbara Taylor Bradford … Writer
- Barrie Guard … Music by
- Elkie Brooks … Theme Music by
- Jenny Seagrove … Cast, Paula
- Stephen Collins … Cast, Shane O'Neill
- Deborah Kerr … Cast, Emma
- Claire Bloom … Cast, Edwina
- Suzanna Hamilton … Cast, Emily
- Nigel Havers … Cast, Jim Fairley
- John Mills … Cast, Rossiter
- Liam Neeson … Cast, Blackie O'Neill
- James Brolin … Cast, Ross Nelson
- Paul Daneman … Cast, David Amory
- Dominic Jephcott … Cast, Jonathan
- Paul Geoffrey … Cast, Anthony
- Valentine Pelka … Cast, Winston Harte
- Pauline Yates … Cast, Daisy Amory
- Sarah-Jane Varley … Cast, Sally Harte
- Victoria Wicks … Cast, Sarah Lowther
- Nicholas Farrell … Cast, Sebastian Cross
- David Swift … Cast, John Cross
- Amanda Boxer … Cast, Minerva
- Bruce Boa … Cast, Dale Stevens
- Sean Caffrey … Cast, Detective Sergeant McNamara
- Sorcha Cusack … Cast, Bridget O'Donnel
- Joe Crilly … Cast, Constable Kennedy
- Denyse Alexander … Cast, Gaye Sloane
- Vass Anderson … Cast, the Coroner
- Ben Aris … Cast, the Doctor
- Richard Morant … Cast, Malcolm Perring
- Elizabeth Benson … Cast, Hilda
- James Hayes … Cast, Lamont
- Carole Walker … Cast, Nora
- Ralph Watson … Cast, Sam Fellowes
- Patricia Lawrence … Cast, Mrs. Padgett
- Valerie Phillips … Cast, Meg
- Kate Harper … Cast, Elaine Vickers
- Christopher Muncke … Cast, Sonny Vickers
- Joan Heal … Cast, Ann Donovan
- Kenneth Nelson … Cast, Marriot Watson
- Neville Phillips … Cast, the Vicar
- Paul Miles-Kingston … Cast, the Choirboy
- Fiona Fullerton … Cast, Sky Smith