The Forsyte Saga

📊 Series Specifications

Network ITV1
Episode Runtime ~75 min
Total Seasons 2
Total Episodes 10
Original Language EN
Creator John Galsworthy, Stephen Mallatratt

The Forsyte Saga (2002)

Created by John Galsworthy , Stephen Mallatratt
⭐ 4.0 / 5 (45 votes) 🎬 2 Seasons 📼 10 Episodes 🏷️ Drama 📡 Ended
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Series Status:

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Synopsis

The Forsyte Saga is a British-American drama television serial based on John Galsworthy's novel series of the same name. Taking place from the 1870s to the 1920s, three generations of the upper-middle-class Forsyte family are explored.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Episode 1

Emotionally aloof Soames Forsyte, a well-to-do solicitor, becomes enamoured at first sight of Irene Heron, but she declines his marriage proposal,

E2 Episode 2

Irene consents to marry Soames on the proviso that he will make her happy. When it is apparent that she is not, he hires Phillip Bisonney to design them a unique country house.

E3 Episode 3

Realising he has lost Irene, a vengeful Soames sets out to ruin Bosinney's architectural career by charging him with mismanagement.

E4 Episode 4

Soames forces himself on Irene just before his lawsuit with Bossiney comes to court, with tragic consequences.

E5 Episode 5

Many years have passed since Irene left, and Soames has now decided that he wants a divorce. He's met attractive young Annette Lamotte, who, with her mother, runs a restaurant in Soho. Soames calls on Young Jolyon, trustee of the legacy his father left Irene, to ask if she can provide him with grounds for divorce.

E6 Episode 6

Soames sends Jolyon to Irene in order to secure a divorce so he can remarry a French girl, but the cousins have a falling out.

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