![]() He though impoverished is from the officer and gentleman class while Demelza is only a servant. The heart of the drama lies in the relationship between Ross and his future wife Demelza, which crossed the class divide. Demelza was played by Angharad Rees, whose tumbling red hair spawned a fashion for perms. ROBIN ELLIS, who played Captain Ross Poldark, became a national heartthrob. In a national poll in 2007 American viewers voted it the seventh best British series ever broadcast. ![]() It was sold to 40 countries and was especially popular in the US where it was shown on the prestigious Masterpiece Theatre slot. ![]() The second series was based on the next three books. ” By then Poldark had become such a huge hit at home that vicars were known to change the times of their evening services in order not to clash with it. It was not until the second series that he was able to have any input. His daughter reveals: “He tried everything to stop the show from airing but he didn’t have any editorial control. After viewing the first episode Graham feared the rest of the series would deteriorate into schmalz. ![]() The first BBC series was adapted from the fi rst four Poldark novels (there were 12 in all) and first shown in 1975. That was certainly not in any of the books. In one scene she even offered to pull down her knickers for a shilling. In the novel she was a tomboy but the producers had some salacious need to make her sexually loose. ![]()
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