To Be the Best

The read

The series ran 1 season across 2 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.

Synopsis

To Be the Best is a two-part 1991 British television serial, based on Barbara Taylor Bradford's 1988 novel of the same name, a follow-up to A Woman of Substance (1984) and Hold the Dream (1987). It stars Lindsay Wagner as Paula O'Neill (née Harte), taking over the role from Deborah Kerr. Paula O'Neill feuds with her cousins as she fights to save her grandmother's business, and struggles to salvage her marriage.

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Key crew

• Tom WharmbyDirector
• Elliott BakerWriter
• Alan ParkerOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• Lindsay WagnerPaula O'Neill (née Harte)
• Stephanie BeachamArabella Sutton
• Anthony HopkinsJack Figg
• Christopher CazenoveJonathan Ainsley
• Stuart WilsonJack Miller
• James SaitoTony Chiu
• Fiona FullertonMadelena
• Gary CadyPhilip
• David RobbShane O'Neill
• Claire ObermanSarah Pascal
• Christopher BlakeSandy
• Thomas EwbankPatrick

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