Room at the top. Episode 1

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Based on John Braine's classic novel about a young man on the make in 194's Yorkshire. Joe Lampton moves to the wealthy town of Warley. It's not long before he has attracted the attentions of Susan...

Based on John Braine's classic novel about a young man on the make in 194's Yorkshire. Joe Lampton moves to the wealthy town of Warley. It's not long before he has attracted the attentions of Susan Brown, a very pretty girl with a rich and successful father. But Joe is already in love with another woman. Older than him and with her looks beginning to fade, Alice Aisgill is married already. When Susan and others discover his affair, Joe must choose between the true love he feels for Alice and the success and stability offered by a union with Susan. Leaving working class Dufton behind him, Joe Lampton arrives in the affluent mill town of Warley with two things on his mind ... money and sex. He takes lodgings at 'The Top', where the rich folk live, and he starts mixing with a better class of female at the local amateur dramatic society. He is soon dating Susan Brown, the daughter of the richest man in Warley. But his plan to marry into the wealthy middle classes is threatened by his feelings for Alice Aisgill, a woman who is not only ten years older than him, but also married.

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