Hold the Dream

1986 NR 3h 15m 6.4

Four-part, four-hour follow-up to A Woman of Substance (1984) with Deborah Kerr, now playing Emma Harte at age eighty in the last winter of her life and dealing with her granddaughter Paula.

Paula, now head of the Harte chain of department stores, has taken on the burden of preserving Emma's legacy. However, she suffers dissent within her extended family, in particular from her devious cousin Jonathan Ainsley. Her marriage to Jim Fairley is unhappy, leading her into the arms of her childhood sweetheart, Shane O'Neill (Stephen Collins), grandson of Blackie O'Neill (Liam Neeson). Struggling to prove herself in a male-dominated world, just like her grandmother before her, Paula suffers heartache and loss that mirror her grandmother's life. Emma's request that Paula hold her dream drives Paula to fight and overcome personal tragedy and come out on top, to save the Harte name for the next generation.

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Episodes:

Episode 1

1.

Aired: Oct 27, 1986

Emma steps down from running her vast financial empire, leaving her granddaug...

Episode 2

2.

Aired: Oct 28, 1986

Paula's work ethic, just like her grandmother's, causes trouble at home. An o...

Episode 3

3.

Aired: Nov 3, 1986

Paula's plans to divorce Jim to marry another man are disrupted by a car acci...

Episode 4

4.

Aired: Nov 4, 1986

The reading of Emma's revised Will splinters the family.

Info about Hold the Dream

Network: Channel 4

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres: Drama, Romance