TV series

Coming Home

Name: Coming Home
Released: 1998
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Joanna Lumley, Paul Bettany, Patrick Ryecart, Emily Mortimer

1998· 1 season· 101 min episodesEnded

On ITV1 — From Portman Entertainment Group · LWT

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Synopsis

Alone and without her parents, Judith Dunbar spends her school days in a boarding school. When her friend Loveday invites her to Gut Nancherrow one day, it is love at first sight for Judith. The elegant lady of the house Diana, her husband Colonel Cary-Lewis and Loveday's siblings Edward and Athena immediately fall in love with her and treat her like family. But the outbreak of the Second World War put an end to the idyll on Nancherrow overnight. A long, thorny road lies ahead of Judith until she finally finds happiness in a family of her own...

Themes

based on novel or book world war ii boarding school wealth miniseries period drama unhappiness 1930s

Episodes

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E1 Part 1Next upApr 12, 1998 · 102 min
Synopsis
With her family in Singapore, 14-year-old Judith Dunbar is left with the loneliness of life in an English boarding school. At St. Ursula's Judith makes a lifelong friend in the devil-may-care Loveday Carey-Lewis, who invites her home for the weekend. One glimpse at Nancherrow and the entire Carey-Lewis family, and it is love at first site.
Guest stars: Penelope Keith (Aunt Louise), Keira Knightley (Young Judith Dunbar), David McCallum (Billy Fawcett), Gruschenka Stevens (Athena), Charles Edwards (Rupert), Katie Ryder Richardson (Loveday), George Asprey (Jeremy), Susan Hampshire (Miss Catto)
E2 Part 2Apr 13, 1998 · 98 min
Synopsis
In the midst of her dedicated service to the war effort, Judith chances upon a caring friend from Nancherrow. What would seem to be an act of wartime comfort awakens feelings unbeknownst to her. But a cruel twist of fate causes Judith to believe she has once again found only friendship, rather than love.
Guest stars: Madeleine Moffat (Red Cross Worker), Gruschenka Stevens (Athena), Katie Ryder Richardson (Loveday), George Asprey (Jeremy), Heikko Deutschmann (Gus), Carol Drinkwater (Aunt Biddy), Malcolm Stoddard (Bob Somerville), David Macmillan (Dobson)