Wendie Hiller, Harry Andrews, Patrick Barlow, Geoffrey Bayldon, Graham Crowden, Maurice Denham, John Franklyn-Robbin, Eileen Way; Directed by Martyn Friend

This three-part miniseries is really a stage play. It begins with elderly Dame Wendie Hiller sitting vigil at the deathbed of her husband. Her duty done, her children raised to adulthood, she embarks on her soul's journey. Against the protests of her family she leases a quixotic cottage from a quirky character named Bucktrout. Mr. Bucktrout is exceeding accommodating in making the cottage beautiful. She seems content in the thoughtful, gentle passing of her last days in her idyllic world.

Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews), visits the cottage to rekindle memories of their brief, deep, but unfulfilled brush as soul-mates in colonial India years before. His frank declaration of his feelings for Lady Shane, (Wendie Hiller) are met with mild but warm requital. This series is a masterpiece.