The Onedin Line: Season 7
Season 7 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Onedin Line Season 6.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 7 Progress Shield
Liverpool Bound
Jul 22, 1979 · 50 min
Newly elected to Parliament Daniel joins with Elizabeth to prevent William from selling the Frazer Line to an apparent consortium, actually a front for Beaumont. To take his mind o
The Homecoming
Jul 29, 1979 · 50 min
Leaving Letty feeling adrift in their new, large country house James sails to Belfast, persuading cash-strapped Captain Seth Burgess to cut him into his steamship line. William ret
The Paddy Westers
Aug 5, 1979 · 50 min
William's death causes a rift between Charlotte and Samuel, not helped when they learn that William left his son twenty thousand pounds. Seth Burgess is duped by the infamous taver
Dirty Cargo
Aug 12, 1979 · 50 min
Whilst Charlotte becomes bored with life with Samuel, James learns that Elizabeth is sailing to South Africa with a mysterious and dangerous cargo. She is in fact gun-running. Jame
To Honour and Obey
Aug 19, 1979 · 50 min
James takes Mr. Da Silva and his cargo of lemons to the Azores but crew members Harris and McDade bully cabin boy Tom into helping them rob his possessions and kill the bosun when
Running Free
Aug 26, 1979 · 50 min
Seth Burgess obtains a contract to take China clay to Jamaica but whilst James is transporting it Burgess elopes with Charlotte and her Onedin line shares. Whilst Samuel shows no i
The Suitor
Sep 2, 1979 · 50 min
Whilst Charles Marston goes into partnership with Elizabeth to build a South American railway Sarah accepts a marriage proposal from steamboat captain Dampier. Captain Baines sails
Storm Clouds
Sep 9, 1979 · 50 min
Letty faces opposition to establishing her orphanage from bigots who feel it will lower the tone of the area. Despite herself Elizabeth finds herself falling for Charles Marston an
Outward Bound
Sep 16, 1979 · 50 min
James pursues Charlotte and Burgess to Cyprus where he exposes the young captain's interest in his daughter as being purely mercenary, persuading a despairing Charlotte to return h
Homeward Bound
Sep 23, 1979 · 50 min
The Doyles return to Liverpool and Samuel declares his love for Helen but Charlotte refuses to divorce him - whilst Sarah and Fergus spend time together. Elizabeth learns that Dani