BBC One · Ended

Little Sir Nicholas

Drama · 1990

Last aired: S1 E6, Episode 6 · 1990-02-07

Based on the novel by CA Jones, Little Sir Nicholas is a story set in the Victorian era about heritage, identity and family rivalries. The Tremaine family have, for many generations, bred proud-serving Royal Navy officers. When the Tremaine heir, along with his wife and their four-year-old son, go missing at sea during a storm, Lady Tremaine seeks a new heir to her family's estate. When she discovers a distant relative in the shape of ten-year-old Gerald Tremaine, she invites him and his mother to inherit the family fortune. While the new heir settles into his new life however, presumed dead Nicholas, now nine and the rightful heir, is found alive and well and brought home to be reinstated in his position as head of the Tremaine family. Just how will Gerald cope with being replaced?

Cast

RG Rachel Gurney Lady Tremaine

LM Louisa Millwood-Haigh Margaret Tremaine

JN Jonathan Norris Gerald Tremaine

Bernice Stegers Mrs. Tremaine

Christopher Villiers William Randle

Jack Watson Robinson

Season 1

E1 Episode 1 1990-01-03 · 25 min A violent storm at sea and the heirs to the baronetcy of Trecastle are drowned. Will a boy now inherit the title?

E2 Episode 2 1990-01-10 · 25 min Twelve-year-old Sir Gerald Tremaine starts his new life as a baronet in Cornwall.

E3 Episode 3 1990-01-17 · 25 min Young Nicholas returns to Cornwall to reclaim his title but cannot feel at home there.

E4 Episode 4 1990-01-24 · 25 min As Christmas approaches, young Nicholas has to overcome his fear of the sea.

E5 Episode 5 1990-01-31 · 25 min Nicholas's pet pony, one of his few real friends, is now missing. What can he do to escape unhappiness in the house on the cliff?

E6 Episode 6 1990-02-07 · 25 min The story moves to its climax as the search continues for Nicholas and cousin Gerald risks his life.

TV listings and show data from TVmaze.