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*Hold the Dream*
Hold the Dream
Genre	Drama
Based on	Hold the Dream; by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Directed by	Don Sharp
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Original release
Network	Channel 4
Release	5 May –; 6 May 1987
Related
	A Woman of Substance; To Be the Best;

Hold the Dream is a British two-part serial made in 1986, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Barbara Taylor Bradford. It is the second book in the Emma Harte series, following A Woman of Substance. Hold the Dream continues the story of Emma Harte, played by Deborah Kerr, with Jenny Seagrove, who played the young Emma taking over the part of Paula Fairley.^[1]

Plot

Paula Fairley, now head of the Harte chain of department stores, has taken on the burden of preserving Emma's legacy. However, she suffers dissent within her extended family, in particular from her devious cousin Jonathan Ainsley.

Her marriage to Jim Fairley is unhappy, leading her into the arms of her childhood sweetheart, Shane O'Neill (Stephen Collins), grandson of Blackie O'Neill (Liam Neeson). Struggling to prove herself in a male dominated world, just like her grandmother before her, Paula suffers heartache and loss that mirror the life of her grandmother. Emma's request that Paula hold her dream is what drives Paula to fight and overcome personal tragedy and come out on top, so as to save the Harte name for the next generation.

Cast

Jenny Seagrove as Paula Fairley
Stephen Collins as Shane O'Neill
Deborah Kerr as Emma Harte
Liam Neeson as Desmond "Blackie" O'Neill
James Brolin as Ross Nelson
Claire Bloom as Edwina Standish, Lady Dunvale
John Mills as Henry Rossiter
Paul Daneman as David Amory
Fiona Fullerton as Skye Smith
Suzanna Hamilton as Emily Barkstone
Nigel Havers as Jim Fairley
Pauline Yates as Daisy Amory
Valentine Pelka as Winston Harte
Sarah-Jane Varley as Sally Harte
Paul Geoffrey as Anthony Standish, Earl of Dunvale
Dominic Jephcott as Jonathan Ainsley
Victoria Wicks as Sarah Lowther
David Swift as John Cross
Nicholas Farrell as Sebastian Cross
Richard Morant as Malcolm Perring
Bruce Boa as Dale Stevens
Denyse Alexander as Gaye Sloane
Amanda Boxer as Minerva Standish
Kate Harper as Elaine Vickers
Christopher Muncke as Sonny Vickers
Ralph Watson as Sam Fellowes

Production

The script was written by Barbara Taylor Bradford herself after the producer had been unhappy with a number of other scripts. She had never written a script before.^[2]

Karl Lagerfeld designed 40 costumes for Jenny Seagrove to wear in this miniseries.^[3] The title song was written by Barrie Guard and performed by Elkie Brooks.^[3] The song was released on Brooks's 1986 album No More the Fool.

Reception

The New York Times, which had liked A Woman of Substance, called this "dreary" and "will no doubt be useful as a future textbook case on how not to make a sequel."^[4]

References

^ Vagg, Stephen (27 July 2019). "Unsung Aussie Filmmakers: Don Sharp – A Top 25". Filmink.
^ "Novelist Becomes Script Writer in One Hectic Lesson" by RACHEL BILLINGTON LONDON. New York Times 26 Oct 1986: 94.
^ ^a ^b Humphries, Scott (2023). The age of melodramatic miniseries : when glamour ruled on television, 1980-1995. Jefferson. N.C.: McFarland and Co. pp. 31, 136. ISBN 978-1-4766-9162-6. OCLC 1369320737.
^ "Sequel to 'A Woman of Substance'" by JOHN J. O'CONNOR. New York Times 27 Oct 1986: C22.