To the Ends of the Earth

Name: To the Ends of the Earth
Genre: Drama
Released: 2005-07-06T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jared Harris, Jamie Sives, Victoria Hamilton, Sam Neill

From Nobel Laureate William Golding's (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government.

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Status

Ended

Original Name

To the Ends of the Earth

First Air Date

July 6, 2005

Last Air Date

July 20, 2005

Seasons

Episodes

Language

English

Production Companies

BBC

Networks

BBC One

S01E03

Fire Down Below

Edmund acts as a witness to the wedding between the injured Prettiman and Miss Granham, with flowers grown by the captain in his window boxes. Despite initial animosity towards him Edmund starts to show some admiration for the older man's liberal ideas. With the mast broken the ship is drifting perilously close to an ice-field but Benet saves the situation by pouring molten lead into the mast's base, which steadies it and the ship reaches Sydney safely. Due to Edmund's influence Summers is given his own ship but dies when it catches fire though for Edmund there is a happy ending as he is reconciled with Marion, who has also arrived in Sydney.

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