# ID a British TV show from the eighties **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 4, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-british-tv-show-from-the-eighties/516349 "2009-11-04T23:32:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-british-tv-show-from-the-eighties/516349/1 "2009-11-04T23:32:52Z")
There was a British TV show from in the early to mid eighties and for which I remember only the vaguest of details, and I have been curious for a while now as to what the series was called. I searched Wikipedia, which has a list of all British TV series, but either the show is not listed there or I have missed it since the list is so long. Here is the little information I remember [ul] [li]It aired in the early to mid eighties[/li][li]It was set in earlier times, I believe, though I don’t know exactly what the period was.[/li][li]It involved a vicar/priest/pastor or some other type of religious official[/li][li]The above guy was married (which I guess limits the type of religious official he could have been)[/li][li]His wife had a sister[/li][li]When his wife was pregnant, he “convinced” his wife and her sister that he should have sex with the sister, since he wasn’t getting any from his pregnant wife.[/li][/ul] Do any Dopers know what the show was called? Hopefully some Brit Dopers can identify it. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-british-tv-show-from-the-eighties/516349/2 "2009-11-05T01:35:14Z")
It’s a bit of a long shot, and doesn’t quite square with the details that you’ve outlined, but are you perhaps thinking of the television series [Poldark](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075560/), based on the [series of novels by Winston Graham](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poldark)? Later in the series there is a character called the [Reverend Osborne Whitworth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poldark#Reverend_Osborne_Whitworth). He’s a rather sleazy Anglican minister, married to a woman called Morwenna Chynoweth. She has been forced into this marriage against her will, and loathes her husband. When she becomes pregnant Whitworth begins a torrid affair with his wife’s younger sister Rowella Chynoweth. However, this isn’t done with the agreement of his wife. She knows nothing of the affair. ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-british-tv-show-from-the-eighties/516349/3 "2009-11-05T05:07:04Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > It’s a bit of a long shot, and doesn’t quite square with the details that you’ve outlined, but are you perhaps thinking of the television series [Poldark](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075560/), based on the [series of novels by Winston Graham](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poldark)? > > Later in the series there is a character called the [Reverend Osborne Whitworth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poldark#Reverend_Osborne_Whitworth). He’s a rather sleazy Anglican minister, married to a woman called Morwenna Chynoweth. She has been forced into this marriage against her will, and loathes her husband. When she becomes pregnant Whitworth begins a torrid affair with his wife’s younger sister Rowella Chynoweth. However, this isn’t done with the agreement of his wife. She knows nothing of the affair. This is it! I love the Dope 🙂