Episode 7: Elizabeth and Francis’s son Geoffrey Charles contracts the morbid sore throat, Demelza helps nurse him but then tragedy strikes with her own child.
Episode Cast: Robin Ellis (Ross Poldark), Clive Francis (Francis Poldark), Norma Streader (Verity Poldark), Nicholas Selby (Nicholas Warleggan), Angharad Rees (Demelza), Ralph Bates (George Warleggan), Jill Townsend (Elizabeth Poldark), Richard Morant (Doctor Dwight Enys), Mary Wimbush (Prudie), Paul Curran (Jud), Jonathan Newth (Captain Blamey), Christopher Benjamin (Sir Hugh), Stuart Doughty (Jim Carter), Milton Johns (Matthew Sanson), Sheelah Wilcocks (Mrs Tabb), Gillian Bailey, Sheila White, Stefan Gates, James Woolf, John Baskcomb, Jon Croft, Patrick Westwood, Edward Evans, David Millett, Martin Fisk, Donald Douglas
Writer: Paul Wheeler / Director: Paul Annett
Airdate: 16 Nov 1975 on BBC-1
Series: Poldark Season 1 Episode 7
Show Info: Period drama series. In the 18th century Cornish Squire Ross Poldark returns home from America to find his estate in taters, putting things to rights he meets the fiery Demelza and crosses swords with the evil George Warleggan.