Poldark (1975)

The 1975 Poldark, not the 2015 remake. Robin Ellis plays Ross Poldark, home in late 18th-century Cornwall and trying to revive the family's derelict copper mines, and Angharad Rees's Demelza is the warmest, sharpest performance in the show. Next to the remake it is slower and more interior, with long dialogue scenes and studio interiors doing much of the work. In return the 29 episodes give the class politics and the mining economics room to breathe, and the romance builds with real patience.