Episode 1

In 1956 Leo Argyll prepares to marry the younger, bitchy Gwenda Vaughan, eighteen months after his wife Rachel was murdered and the disturbed Jack, one of their several adopted children, accused, dying in prison. Another adoptee Mary, married to wheelchair-bound Philip, sees Gwenda as a vulgar gold digger whilst prodigal son Micky and sisters Hester and Tina are more relaxed. Then physicist Arthur Calgary, recently returned from a year in the Arctic, comes forward to give Jack an alibi though the family does not believe him. However it is apparent that Rachel was not the kindly matron Leo believed her to have been. Written by don @ minifie-1